Margaritifera falcata (A.Gould, 1850)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Bivalvia
- order
- Unionida
- family
- Margaritiferidae
- genus
- Margaritifera
- species
- Margaritifera falcata
Name
- Synonyms
- Alasmodon falcata A.Gould, 1850
- Alasmodon yubaensis Trask, 1855
- Margaritana margaritifera falcata (A.Gould, 1850)
- Margaritana margaritifera var. falcata (A.Gould, 1850)
- Margaritanopsis falcata (A.Gould, 1850)
- Margaritifera margaritifera falcata (A.Gould, 1850)
- Homonyms
- Margaritifera falcata (A.Gould, 1850)
- Common names
- Western pearlshell in English
- Western pearlshell in English
- Westliche Flussperlmuschel in German
- western freshwater pearl mussel in English
- Western Pearlshell in English
- Western pearlshell in English
- Westliche Flussperlmuschel in German
- western freshwater pearl mussel in English
Bibliographic References
- Bolotov I.N., Vikhrev I.V., Bespalaya Y.V., Gofarov M.Y., Kondakov A.V., Konopleva E.S., Bolotov N.N. & Lyubas A.A. (2016). Multi-locus fossil-calibrated phylogeny, biogeography and a subgeneric revision of the Margaritiferidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida). <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 103: 104-121.
- 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.
- Graf, Daniel L., and Kevin S. Cummings, 2007: Review of the systematics and global diversity of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionoida). Journal of Molluscan Studies, vol. 73, part 4. 291-314.
- Graf, Daniel L., and Kevin S. Cummings, 2021: A 'big data' approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species. Journal of Molluscan Studies, vol. 87, no. 1. 1-36.
- Haag, Wendell R., 2012: null. North American Freshwater Mussels: Natural History, Ecology, and Conservation. 538.
- Heard, W. H. (1970). Hermaphroditism in <i>Margaritifera falcata</i> (Gould) (Pelecypoda: Margaritiferidae). <em>The Nautilus.</em> 83(3): 113-114.
- InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org).
- Turgeon, D. D., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, W. K. Emerson, W. G. Lyons, W. Pratt, et al., 1988: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 16. vii + 277.
- Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526.
- Williams, James D., Melvin L. Warren, Kevin S. Cummings, John L. Harris, and Richard J. Neves, 1993: Conservation status of the freshwater mussels of the United States and Canada. Fisheries, vol. 18, no. 9. 6-22.