MolluscaBase - Margaron (Unio) amygdalum (I. Lea, 1843)

MolluscaBase name details

Margaron (Unio) amygdalum (I. Lea, 1843)

AphiaID

860627 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:860627)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (recombination)

Accepted name

Villosa amygdalum (I. Lea, 1843)

Rank

Species

Parent

Margaron (Unio) Philipsson, 1788 accepted as Unio Philipsson, 1788

Original name

Unio amygdalum I. Lea, 1843

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Unio amygdalum I. Lea, 1843) Lea, I. (1843). [Description of twelve new species of uniones]. Privately printed, Philadelphia [on or before August 22, 1843, teste Scudder (1885: 42)]. 1 page.
page(s): 1 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Margaron (Unio) amygdalum (I. Lea, 1843). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=860627 on 2025-07-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2015-10-16 12:17:34Z

created

Bieler, Rüdiger

2016-12-30 21:44:16Z

changed

Bieler, Rüdiger

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Sources (3)

original description (of Unio amygdalum I. Lea, 1843) Lea, I. (1843). [Description of twelve new species of uniones]. Privately printed, Philadelphia [on or before August 22, 1843, teste Scudder (1885: 42)]. 1 page.
page(s): 1 [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]