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Page last updated
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!

This page reports the specimens in the MUSSELpdb and provides a map if geocodes are known. The taxonomic history reports the record of different names and combinations that have been applied to this species (and its synonyms) since 2007.

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Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina | Platynaias

species Platynaias compressa (Lea, 1829): specimens
     7 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Lasmigona (Platynaias) compressaGraf & Cummings (2007)
Lasmigona compressaZanatta et al. (2007), Tiemann et al. (2007), Chong et al. (2008), Watters et al. (2009), ..., Chen et al. (2023), Liu et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024)
Platynaias compressaWu et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2024)

Range: Widespread in the Interior, Nelson, and Great Lakes basins, as well as the northern Atlantic Slope, North America.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map


USA

specimen
MCZ_154361

small brook in Middlebury, Vermont

specimen
USNM_83961

Yellow Cr., Cincinnati, Ohio

 

Page updated: 16:33:06 Wed 06 Mar 2024

 
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