| Type | PARALECTOTYPES |
| Catalogue # | OSUM 57240 |
| Type locality | [Tennessee River] at Tuscumbia, [Colbert Co.,] Alabama, [USA] |
| Collector(s) | L.B. Thornton |
| Date collected | before 1857 |
| # Specimens | 3 dry |
| Description | Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences 1: 83 |
| Remarks | |
| Current status | Pleurobema oviforme (Conrad, 1834) |