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

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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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species Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque, 1820: specimens
7 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Obliquaria reflexa — Tiemann et al. (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Chapman et al. (2008), Williams et al. (2008), ..., Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Freeman et al. (2025)
Epioblasma phillipsii — Watters et al. (2009)

Range: Widespread in the Interior, Great Lakes and Mobile basins of eastern North America.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map

USA
ANSP_20206 Letart Falls	ANSP_56695 Alabama R., Ala	ANSP_19432 Wabash R., Indiana

Genbank Vouchers

USA

UF_438246-6265 (COI, ND1, 28S, ITS1, 5.8S) Ohio River, Ohio drainage (39.0953, -84.5081)

UF_438940-6910 (COI, ND1, 28S, ITS1, 5.8S) Neches River, Neches drainage (31.9456, -95.4446)

UAUC_19 (COI, 16S, ND1) Cahaba R., Bibb Co., Alabama

UAUC_2508 (COI, 16S, ND1) Coosa River, 2.7 mi downstream of Jordan Dam, Elmore Co. AL

UF_441254 (COI) USA, Texas, Smith/Wood County, Sabine River, Hwy 14, S of Hawkins, TX, collected from a riffle 200m downstream from bridge crossing (32.5573098, -95.2056386)

JBFMC_10008_4 (16S) USA: Texas, Sabine River

UF_438940 (SRA) USA, Texas, Anderson/Cherokee County, Neches River @ CR335 (31.945598, -95.444602)

Mp_2667_H1888 (COI, COII)

Mp_2667_H1888g (COI M-type, COII M-type)

ANSP_397247 (28S)

ANSP_A12722 (28S)

Page updated: 07:53:51 Tue 01 Jul 2025

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