Marine Species Traits - Fusconaia masoni (Conrad, 1834)

(of Unio masoni Conrad, 1834) Conrad, T. A. (1834). New fresh water shells of the United States, with coloured illustrations, and a monograph of the genus Anculotus of Say; also a synopsis of the American naiades. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, U.S.A. 1-84, plates 1-9. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16346317
page(s): 34, pl. 5, fig. 2 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Fusconaia masoni (Conrad, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=857311 on 2025-05-16

Taxonomic edit history

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Nomenclature

original description (of Unio masoni Conrad, 1834) Conrad, T. A. (1834). New fresh water shells of the United States, with coloured illustrations, and a monograph of the genus Anculotus of Say; also a synopsis of the American naiades. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, U.S.A. 1-84, plates 1-9. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16346317
page(s): 34, pl. 5, fig. 2 [details]

original description (of Unio pumilus I. Lea, 1838) Lea, I. (1838). Description of new freshwater and land shells. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. new ser., 6: 1-154, plates 1-24., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26881423
page(s): 23, pl. 7, fig. 17 [details]

original description (of Margaron (Unio) pumilus (I. Lea, 1838)) Lea, I. (1838). Description of new freshwater and land shells. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. new ser., 6: 1-154, plates 1-24., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26881423
page(s): 23 [details]

original description (of Unio utriculus 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): 164 [details]

original description (of Unio merus I. Lea, 1852) Lea, I. (1852). Descriptions of new species of the family Unionidae. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. (NS) 10(2): 253-294, plates 12-29 [1 June 1852, teste Scudder (1885: 57)]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4529783
page(s): 260, pl. 15, fig. 10 [details]

original description (of Unio striatulus I. Lea, 1857) Lea, I. (1857). Description of twelve new species of naïades from North Carolina. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 9: 85-86 [after 31 March 1857; before 7 January 1858]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6330349
page(s): 86 [details]

original description (of Unio castus I. Lea, 1860) Lea, I. (1860). Descriptions of seven new species of Unionidae from the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 12: 306-307 [7 August 1860]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1801247
page(s): 306 [details]

original description (of Unio brimleyi S. H. Wright, 1897) Wright, S. H. (1897). Contribution to a knowledge of United States Unionidae. The Nautilus. 10(12): 136-139., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1819065
page(s): 138 [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]

Other

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