MolluscaBase - Ptychobranchus fasciolaris (Rafinesque, 1820)

(of Obliquaria (Ellipsaria) fasciolaris 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): 303 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ptychobranchus fasciolaris (Rafinesque, 1820). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=857382 on 2025-07-02

Taxonomic edit history

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original description (of Unio phaseolus Hildreth, 1828) Hildreth, S. P. (1828). Observations on, and descriptions of the shells, found in the waters of the Muskingum River, Little Muskingum and Duck Creek, in the vicinity of Marietta, Ohio. The American Journal of Science and Arts, 14: 276-291, 2 plates, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39269725
page(s): 283, fig. 14 [details]

original description (of Obliquaria (Ellipsaria) fasciolaris 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): 303 [details]

original description (of Unio planulatus 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): 431, pl. 9, fig. 13 [details]

original description (of Unio camelus I. Lea, 1834) Lea, I. (1834). Observations on the naïades; and descriptions of new species of that, and other families. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. (NS) 5: 23-119, pls 1-19 [August or September 1834]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35957690
page(s): 102, pl. 15, fig. 45 [details]

original description (of Unio compressissimus I. Lea, 1845) Lea, I. (1845). Descriptions of new fresh water and land shells. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 4(33): 162-168 [5 December 1845]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33100618
page(s): 163 [details]

original description (of Ptychobranchus fasciolaris var. lacustris F. C. Baker, 1928) Baker, F. C. (1928). The Mollusca of Chautauqua Lake, New York, with descriptions of a new variety of Ptychobranchus and of Helisoma. The Nautilus. 42(2): 48-60., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8518825
page(s): 52 [details]

basis of record Williams, J. D., Bogan, A. E. & Garner, J. T. (2008). Freshwater mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 908 pp. [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 Branson, B. A. (1966). Alasmidonta marginata and Ptychobranchus fasciolaris in Kansas. The Nautilus. 80(1): 21-24., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8518628 [details]