MolluscaBase taxon details

Alasmidonta raveneliana (I. Lea, 1834)

857248  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:857248)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
  7. Palaeoheterodonta (Subterclass)
  8. Unionida (Order)
  9. Unionoidea (Superfamily)
  10. Unionidae (Family)
  11. Unioninae (Subfamily)
  12. Anodontini (Tribe)
  13. Alasmidonta (Genus)
  14. Alasmidonta raveneliana (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Margaritana raveneliana I. Lea, 1834) Lea, I. (1834). Observations on the naïades; and descriptions of new species of that, and other families. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> (NS) 5: 23-119, pls 1-19 [August or September 1834]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35957690
page(s): 106, pl. 17, fig. 50 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Alasmidonta raveneliana (I. Lea, 1834). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=857248 on 2025-09-10
Date
action
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2015-10-16 11:46:27Z
created
Bieler, Rüdiger

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original description (of Margaritana raveneliana I. Lea, 1834) Lea, I. (1834). Observations on the naïades; and descriptions of new species of that, and other families. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> (NS) 5: 23-119, pls 1-19 [August or September 1834]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35957690
page(s): 106, pl. 17, fig. 50 [details] 

basis of record Graf, D. & Cummings, K. (2007). Review of the systematics and global diversity of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionoida). <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> 73(4): 291-314. [details] 

additional source InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org). [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
LanguageName 
English Appalachian elktoe  [details]
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 86254 Margaritana raveneliana Holotype) (from synonym Margaritana raveneliana I. Lea, 1834)
Unreviewed
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