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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 | Pleurobemini | Elliptio

species Elliptio crassidens (Lamarck, 1819): specimens
     13 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Elliptio crassidensGraf & Cummings (2007), Burdick & White (2007), Williams et al. (2008), Campbell et al. (2008), ..., Graf & Cummings (2021), Smith (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023)

Range: Widespread in the Interior Basin and eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, North America. An isolated population in the St. Mary’s of Peninsular Florida.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map


USA

specimen
USNM_168966

Spanish Creek, Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia

specimen
USNM_84537

Columbus, Ga

specimen
MNHN_MPL_0030

“du lac Erie”

specimen
ANSP_20243

River Ohio

specimen
USNM_168967

Spring Creek, Decatur Co., Georgia

 

Genbank Vouchers

USA

UAUC_3150 (COI, 16S, ND1, ITS1) Coosa River, above Wetumpka below Pipeline Shoals, Elmore Co. AL

UF_441250_1 (COI, ND1, ITS1, 5.8S) USA, West Virginia, Mason County, Ohio River, Greenup Pool, Ohio River Mile 284, near Ashton (38.6133528, -82.1700695)

UF_439147 (EcraPrl065) (COI, ND1, ITS1, 5.8S) USA, Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish, Bogue Chitto River near Lock 2 (30.62254, -89.87655)

UF_441250_2 (COI, ND1, ITS1) USA, West Virginia, Mason County, Ohio River, Greenup Pool, Ohio River Mile 284, near Ashton (38.6133528, -82.1700695)

UAUC_1493 (COI) Tennessee River, upstream of US Rt. 43 in Florence, Lauderdale Co. AL

 

UAUC_3527 (28S, ITS1, 5.8S)

UAM_3527 (ND1)

wuspCOX59 (COI)

Page updated: 16:29:06 Wed 06 Mar 2024

 
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