MolluscaBase - Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)

(of Obliquaria (Quadrula) flava Rafinesque, 1820) Rafinesque C.S. (1820). Monographie des coquilles bivalves et fluviatiles de la Rivière Ohio, contenant douze genres et soixante-huit espéces. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques. 5(5): 287-322, pls 80-82., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k991081/f2.image
page(s): 305, pl. 81, figs. 13-14 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=857310 on 2025-04-30

Taxonomic edit history

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original description (of Unio trigonus I. Lea, 1831) Lea, I. (1831). Observations on the naïades, and descriptions of new species of that and other families. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. (NS) 4: 63-121, plates 3-18., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24786630
page(s): 110, pl. 16, fig. 40 [details]

original description (of Unio rubiginosus I. Lea, 1829) Lea I. (1829). Description of a new genus of the family of naïades, including eight species, four of which are new; also the description of eleven new species of the genus Unio from the rivers of the United States: with observation on some of the characters of the naïades. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. new ser., 3: 403-457, pls 7-14., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4487916
page(s): 427, pl. 8, fig.10 [details]

original description (of Unio cerinus Conrad, 1838) Conrad, T. A. (1835-1838). Monography of the family Unionidae, or naiades of Lamarck, (fresh water bivalve shells), of North America, illustrated by figures drawn on stone from nature. Philadelphia: Dobson. 1: 1-12, pls 1-5 [1835]; 8: 65-72, pls. 36-40 [1837]; 10: 81-94, pls 46-51 [1838]; 11: 95-102, pls 52-56 [1838]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4206381
page(s): 95, pl. 52 [details]

original description (of Unio negatus I. Lea, 1861) Lea, I. (1861). Descriptions of twelve new species of uniones, from Alabama. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 13: 59-60 [2 April 1861]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1683188
page(s): 59 [details]

original description (of Obliquaria (Quadrula) flava Rafinesque, 1820) Rafinesque C.S. (1820). Monographie des coquilles bivalves et fluviatiles de la Rivière Ohio, contenant douze genres et soixante-huit espéces. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques. 5(5): 287-322, pls 80-82., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k991081/f2.image
page(s): 305, pl. 81, figs. 13-14 [details]

original description (of Unio glandaceus I. Lea, 1861) Lea, I. (1861). Descriptions of twelve new species of uniones, from Alabama. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 13: 59-60 [2 April 1861]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1683188
page(s): 59 [details]

original description (of Unio rubidus I. Lea, 1861) Lea, I. (1861). Descriptions of twenty-five new species of Unionidae from Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Florida. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 13: 38-41 [19 March 1861]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1683167
page(s): 40 [details]

original description (of Quadrula rubidula Frierson, 1905) Frierson, L. S. (1905). New Unionidae from Alabama. The Nautilus. 19(2): 13-14, pl. 1., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1755655
page(s): 14, pl. 1, figs. 3-4 [details]

original description (of Fusconaia selecta H. E. Wheeler, 1914) Wheeler, H. E. (1914). The unione fauna of Cache River, with description of a new Fusconaia from Arkansas. The Nautilus. 28(7): 73-78, pl. 4., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1750532
page(s): 76-78, pl. 4 [details]

original description (of Fusconaia flava var. parvula Grier, 1918) Grier, N. M. (1918). New varieties of naiades from Lake Erie. The Nautilus. 32(1): 9-12., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1772158
page(s): 11-12 [details]

basis of record Campbell, D. C. & Lydeard, C. (2012). Molecular systematics of Fusconaia (Bivalvia: Unionidae: Ambleminae). American Malacological Bulletin. 30 (1): 1-17. [details]

additional source InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org). [details]

additional source Pieri, A. M., Inque, K., Johnson, N. A., Smith, C. H., Harris, J. L., Robertson, C. & Randklev, C. R. (2018). Molecular and morphometric analyses reveal cryptic diversity within freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) of the western Gulf coastal drainages of the USA. Biological Society of the Linnean Society. 124(2): 261-277., available online at https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/124/2/261/4992918?login=false [details]