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Wed 06 Mar 2024

The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

For each valid genus, the valid species are listed, Recent taxa first.

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini

genus Pleurobema Rafinesque, 1819: valid species
     11 nominal genera as synonyms | Cladomics

Pleurobema athearni Gangloff, Williams & Feminella, 2006
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Endemic to Canoe Creek in the Coosa Basin, Alabama. [North America]
Genbank sequences: COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient.
Nature Serve: G1 Proposed endangered.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema beadleianum (Lea, 1861)
4 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Western Gulf Coastal Plain, from Mississippi to Texas. [North America]
Genbank sequences: COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.
Nature Serve: G3.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819)
18 synonyms | 8 specimens
Range: Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, Upper Mississippi and Lake Erie basins, North America. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered, Extinct (Pleurobema bournianum).
Nature Serve: G1G2 Endangered; Experimental population, non-essential.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820)
7 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Widespread in Ohio Basin, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Lower Risk/near threatened.
Nature Serve: G4.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema curtum (Lea, 1859)
1 synonym | 1 specimen
Range: Tombigbee Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, Alabama and Mississippi. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: GH Endangered.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema decisum (Lea, 1831)
9 synonyms | 5 specimens
Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Endangered, Critically Endangered (Pleurobema chattanoogaense).
Nature Serve: G2 Endangered.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase 2.

Pleurobema fibuloides (Lea, 1859)
3 synonyms | 3 specimens
Range: Coosa River, USA. [North America]
Nature Serve: GX.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema georgianum (Lea, 1841)
7 synonyms | 6 specimens
Range: Coosa River, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered, Extinct (Pleurobema nucleopsis), Extinct (Pleurobema troschelianum).
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema hanleyianum (Lea, 1852)
5 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Alabama River, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema hartmanianum (Lea, 1860)
3 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Coosa River, Alabama, USA. [North America]
Nature Serve: G1.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema marshalli Frierson, 1927
1 synonym | 1 specimen
Range: Tombigbee River, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: GX Endangered; Proposed for delisting.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema oviforme (Conrad, 1834)
25 synonyms | 16 specimens
Range: Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1, mtGenome.
IUCN Red List: Vulnerable.
Nature Serve: G2G3.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase 2.

Pleurobema perovatum (Conrad, 1834)
13 synonyms | 10 specimens
Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. Extinct. [North America]
Genbank sequences: COI, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Extinct, Extinct (Pleurobema flavidulum), Extinct (Pleurobema johannis).
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema plenum (Lea, 1840)
2 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Large-stream segments of the Interior Basin, from the Cumberland Plateau west perhaps to Kansas, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered; Experimental population, non-essential.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema pyriforme (Lea, 1857)
10 synonyms | 8 specimens
Range: From the Apalachicola River in Alabama and Georgia to peninsular Florida, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Endangered.
Nature Serve: G2 Endangered.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema riddellii (Lea, 1861)
3 synonyms | 3 specimens
Range: Louisiana and Texas, western Gulf Coastal Plain. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Lower Risk/near threatened.
Nature Serve: G1G2.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema rubellum (Conrad, 1834)
6 synonyms | 5 specimens
Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered, Extinct (Pleurobema avellanum), Critically Endangered (Pleurobema furvum), Extinct (Pleurobema hagleri).
Nature Serve: G1.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema rubrum (Rafinesque, 1820)
13 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Large-stream segments of the Interior Basin, from the Cumberland Plateau west perhaps to Nebraska, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Lower Risk/near threatened.
Nature Serve: G2G3 Proposed threatened.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema sintoxia (Rafinesque, 1820)
25 synonyms | 8 specimens
Range: Widespread in the upper Mississippi River drainage and the Great Lakes, North America. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, COI M-type, COII, COII M-type, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.
Nature Serve: G4G5.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema stabile (Lea, 1861)
2 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Coosa River, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Extinct (Pleurobema murrayense).
Nature Serve: G1.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema strodeanum (B.H. Wright, 1898)
2 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Alabama and western Florida, from the Escambia to the Choctawhatchee, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1, SRA.
IUCN Red List: Vulnerable.
Nature Serve: G2G3 Threatened.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema taitianum (Lea, 1834)
5 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Endangered.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema verum (Lea, 1861)
2 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Black Warrior and Cahaba rivers, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, Alabama. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Extinct.
Nature Serve: GX.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema alixus (Dall, 1913) (Tertiary)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Pliocene, North America.
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema cryptorhynchus (White, 1877) (Cretaceous)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range:
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema dowlingi (McLearn, 1919) (Cretaceous)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range:
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema dyeri Russell, 1967 (Tertiary)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range:
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema humei (Dyer, 1930) (Cretaceous)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range:
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Pleurobema proavitus (White, 1877) (Cretaceous)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range:

Pleurobema propheticus (White, 1876) (Cretaceous)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Cretaceous, North America.

Pleurobema stewardi (White, 1876) (Jurassic)
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Jurassic, North America.

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