Theliderma tuberosa (Lea, 1840)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Quadrula tuberosa Lea, 1840

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym of T. metanevra) (Graf & Cummings, 2021, 2025; MolluscaBase eds., 2025)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered

Was previously considered Extinct by some authorities (Régnier et al., 2009; Cowie et al., 2017).

Distribution

USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Lea, Isaac. (1840). Descriptions of new fresh water and land shells. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1(13): 284-289 [6 November]

Other references:

Bogan, Arthur E. (1996). Theliderma tuberosa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T19051A8802859. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T19051A8802859.en. Accessed on 06 July 2025.

Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.

Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2021). A ‘big data’ approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species. Journal of Molluscan Studies 87(1): eyaa034 (36 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyaa034

Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2025). The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves). MUSSEL Project Web Site, https://www.mussel-project.net/. Accessed 6 July 2025.

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Theliderma metanevra (Rafinesque, 1820). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=857487 on 2025-07-06

Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01245.x  [Appendix S1-S2]

Williams, James D., Bogan, Arthur E. and Garner, Jeffrey T. (2008). Freshwater mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. xv + 908 pp.

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