MolluscaBase name details
original description
(of Unio aureus I. Lea, 1859) Lea, I. (1859). Descriptions of eight new species of Unionidae, from Georgia, Mississippi and Texas. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 11: 112-113 [10 May 1859]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1653050
page(s): 112 [details]
basis of record
Campbell, D. C.; Lydeard, C. (2012). The genera of Pleurobemini (Bivalvia: Unionidae: Ambleminae). <em>American Malacological Bulletin.</em> 30 (1): 19-38. [details]
additional source
InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org). [details]