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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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Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Potamilus

species Potamilus leptodon (Rafinesque, 1820): specimens
     10 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Leptodea leptodonGraf & Cummings (2007), Williams et al. (2008), Watters et al. (2009), Cummings & Graf (2010), ..., Wu et al. (2020), Chen et al. (2020), Teiga-Teixeira et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Potamilus leptodonSmith et al. (2020), Smith & Johnson (2020), Zieritz et al. (2021), FMCS (2021), ..., Wu et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024)

Range: Widespread in the Upper Mississippi and Ohio basins, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map


USA

specimen
USNM_86052

Cincinnati, Ohio

specimen
UMMZ_82960

Wabash River, Grand Chain, Posey Co., Indiana

specimen
ANSP_84210

Wabash River, Grand Chain, Posey Co., Ind.

specimen
ANSP_20214

Kentucky River

   

Genbank Vouchers

USA

INHS_44305 (COI, ND1, 28S, ITS1, 5.8S, SRA) Illinois River, Illinois drainage (41.3312, -88.5089)

UAUC_135 (COI, 16S, ND1) Meramec River, MO

 

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