>Date:    Mon, 6 Sep 1999 09:16:27 -0400
>From:    "Harry G. Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: College of the Redwoods Collection
>
>Dear Dan,
>
>Anodonta nuttalliana I. Lea, 1838 (Transactions of the American
>Philosophical Society 6: 77, pl. 20, fig. 62).

Right on the money, as we have come to expect with Harry.

>Thomas Nuttall (note two double consonants) was an eclectic naturalist, who
>was born (and died) in England.........He collected this mussel in Oregon
>from the Willamette (note two double consonants) R., just above its
>confluence with the Columbia, while serving on the Wyeth Expedition
>(1834-35).

Two other species (Anodonta oregonensis I. Lea, 1838:70, pl. 21, fig. 67
and Anodonta wahlamatensis  I. Lea, 1838:78, pl 20, fig. 64) both
supposedly currently recognized as Anodonta oregonensis were described in
the same paper from the same location, very near where Portland now stands,
namely :

"Wahlamat, near its junction with the Columbia River".  There are no double
consonants.  I assume that this was an earlier spelling of Willamette.
Anyone out there no the story behind this name change?

Also, I could use the learned opinions of anyone on the identification of
the following western Anodonta's:

http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~ksc/Anodonta.html

Kevin
Kevin S. Cummings
Illinois Natural History Survey
607 E. Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
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