North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Lampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)

To ANSP Malacology Collection in GBIF (catalog no. 126223)

AphiaID

160342 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:160342)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Lampsilis Rafinesque, 1820

Original name

Mya radiata Gmelin, 1791

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=160342 on 2026-08-31

Regional species database citation

NARMS (2026). Lampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=160342 on 2026-08-31

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-31 07:42:56Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2011-04-28 09:53:26Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of ) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]

basis of record Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Counts, C. L., III., Dingess, J. M. & Joy, J. E. (1977). The electrocardiogram of the freshwater bivalve Lampsilis radiata (Bivalvia: Unionidae),. The Nautilus. 91(3): 105-107, figs. 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8273625 [details]

additional source Graf, D. & Cummings, K. (2007). Review of the systematics and global diversity of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionoida). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 73(4): 291-314., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eym029 [details]

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

additional source Nylander, O. O. (1930). Lampsilis radiata Gmel. in Aroostook County, Maine. The Nautilus. 44(2): 69-70., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8514927 [details]

additional source Scheide, J. I. & Bonaminio, P. N. (1994). Effect of low water temperature on ion balance in the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, and the unionid mussel, Lampsilis radiata. The Nautilus. 107(4): 113-117, figs. 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8497008 [details]