CHECKLIST OF THE MUSSELS AND CLAMS (BIVALVIA) OF ARKANSAS EULAMELLIBRANCHIA UNIONACEA Mussels MARGARITIFERIDAE CUMBERLANDIINAE Cumberlandia monodonta (Say) Spectacle Case UNIONIDAE AMBLEMINAE AMBELMINI Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque), Fusconaia ebena (Lea) Fusconaia ozarkensis (Call) Amblema plicata (Say) Washboard, Quadrula pustulosa (Lea) Warty Pigtoe Quadrula nodulata (Rafinesque) Quadrula quadrula (Rafinesque) Quadrula metanevra (Rafinesque) Quadrula cylindrica (Say) Spectacle Tritogonia verrucosa (Rafinesque) Plectomerus dombeyanus (Valenciennes) MEGALONAIADINI Megalonaias gigantea (Barnes) UNIONINAE PLEUROBEMINI Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque) Warty Back, Pigtoe, Back, Pleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque) Elliptio dilatatus (Rafinesque) Uniomerus tetralasmus (Say) ANODONTINAE ALASMIDONTINI Lasmigona (Pterosyna) complanata (Barnes) Lasmigona (Lasmigona) costata (Raf.) Pigtoe, Wabash Pigtoe, Red Red Nose Black Heac Ozark Pigtoe, Ozark Three Ridge, Blue Point, Rock Mussel Warty Back; Pimple Back, Pimple Back, Warty Back Maple Leaf, Tear Monkey face, Stranger Cob, Rabbit s Foot, Case, Razor Handle Pistol Grip, Buckhorn, Fantial, Deerhorn Trapezoid Washboard Purple Warty Back, Pink Purple Pit Pigtoe, Pink Pigtoe, White Round Pigtoe Ladyfinger, Spike, Pistol Grip Pond Horn White Heel Splitter, Hackel Hatchet Back, Pancake Fluted, Squaw Foot,
Sand Mussel Alasmidonta (Pressodonta) calceola (Lea) Alasmidonta (Decurambis) marginata Say Arcidens confragosus (Say) Black Arkansia wheeleri Ortmann and Walker ANODONTINI Anodonta (Pyganodon) grandis Say Anodonta (Utterbackia) limbecilis Say Anodonta (Utterbackia) suborbiculata Say Anodontoides ferussacianus (Lea) Simpsonichoncha ambiqua (Say) STROPHIT INI Strophitus undulatus (Say) LAMPSILINAE PTYCHOGENINI Ptychobranchus occidentalis (Conrad) MESOGENINI Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque Back Cyprogenia aberti (Conrad) HETEROGENINI Obovaria olivaria (Rafinesque) Obovaria jacksoniana Frierson Actinonaias carinata (Barnes) Actinonaias ellipsiformis ellipsiformis (Conrad) Actinonaias ellipsiformis pleasii (Marsh) Truncilla truncata Rafinesque Truncilla donaciformis (Lea) Plagiola lineolata Rafinesque Leptodea leptodon (Rafinesque) Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque) Proptera laevissima (Lea) Proptera purpurata (Lamarck) Proptera capax (Green) Carunculina parva (Barnes) Carunculina texasensis (Lea) Carunculina glans (Lea) Villosa arkansasensis (Lea) Villosa lienosa (Conrad) Villosa iris (Lea) Slipper Elktoe, Black Toe Rock, Rock Pocketbook, Pocketbook Wheeler s Floater Paper Pond, Floater Heel Splitter, Suborb Ferussac s Salamander Squaw Foot, Creeper Kidney Shall, Ozark Kidney Homey Back, Three horned Warty Young Fantail Hickory Nut, Egg Jackson s Mucket, Green Mucket, Red Mucket, Grass Mucket Ellipse Bleeding Tooth, Pleas Deer Toe, Deer Foot Fawn s Foot, Deer Toe, Zigzag Butterfly Scale Fragile Paper, Paper, Razorback Paper, Pink Paper, Double Wing Purple, Purply, Red, Western Heel Splitter, Buttermilk Fat Pocketbook, Grandma, Swell Lilliput, Lilliput Mussel Texas Little Purple Arkansas Little Spectacle Case Rainbow
Ligumia subrostrata, (Say) Ligumia recta (Lamarck) Lampsilis anodontoides (Lea) Lampsilis radiata siliquoidea (Barnes) Lampsilis hydiana (Lea) Lampsilis powelli (Lea) Lampsilis reeveiana (Lea) Reeve s Lampsilis streckeri Frierson Lampsilis rafinesqueana Frierson Lampsilis ovata (Say) Lampsilis abrupta (Say) Mussel Lampsilis higginsii (Lea) Dysnomia (Truncillopsis) triquetra (Raf.) Dysnomis (Torulosa) florentina (Lea) Curtis Dysnomia (Torulosa) turgidula (Lea) Lefevre s SPHAERIACEA The Clams CORBICULIDAE Corbicula fluminea Muller Common Pond Mussel, Lipputian Black Sand, Spectacle Case Yellow Sand Fat Mucket Southern Mucket Powell s Broken Rays, Soul of Wit, Strecker s Neosho Mucket Pocketbook Butterfly Orb Mucket, Pink Mucket Pearly Higgins Eye Pearly Mussel Snuffbox Yellow blossom Pearly Mussel, Turgid blossom Pearly Mussel, Asian Clam SPHAERIIDAE Fingernail Clams Sphaerium striatinum (Lamarck) Musculium lacustre (MZiller) Musculium partumeium (Say) Musculium securis (Prime) Musculium transversum (Say) PISIDIUM Pill Clams Pisidium (Cyclocalyx) casertanum (Poli) Pisidium (Cyclocalyx) compressum Prime Pisidium (Cyclocalyx) fallax Sterki Pisidium (Cyclocalyx) adamsi Stimpson Pisidium (Cyclocalyx) nitidum Jenyns Pisidium (Cyclocalyx) variabile Prime Pisidium (Neopisidium) cruciatum Sterki Pisidium (Neopisidium) punctatum Sterki Pisidium (Pisidluin) dubium (Say) Source: Gordon, Mark E. Recent Mollusca of Arkansas. 1981. Original communication. (see also: Gordon, Mark E. In Arkansas Academy of Science Proceedings, 1980). This list is to be cited as: Gordon, Mark E. 1981. Checklist of the Mussels and Clams (Bivalva) of Arkansas. Ark. Acad. of
Science, Ark. Biota Survey Checklist No. 29. 3pp.