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Wed 04 Dec 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 documents data for Moyer & Díaz-Ferguson (2012), such as genera and species attributed to that publication (including known misspellings, misidentifications, and other unavailable names) as well as taxonomic opinions, if available. Taxonomic opinions refer to uses of genera and species as valid and invalid in that work.

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Publication information

Moyer, G.R. & E. Díaz-Ferguson. 2012. Identification of endangered Alabama lampmussel (Lampsilis virescens) specimens collected in the Emory river, Tennessee, USA via DNA barcoding. Conservation Genetics 13: 885-889.

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Cladogram Figures

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fig. 3

Taxonomic Opinions

Lampsilis fasciola

Lampsilis ovata

Lampsilis virescens

Lasmigona compressa

Lasmigona costata

Lasmigona subviridis

Cladogram Figure 3
        +----- Lasmigona_costata    
  +-----+                           
  |     |  +-- Platynaias_compressa 
  |     +--+                        
--+        +-- Platynaias_subviridis
  |                                 
  |  +-------- Lampsilis_ovata__2   
  +--+                              
     |  +----- Lampsilis_ovata__1   
     +--+                           
        |  +-- Lampsilis_virescens  
        +--+                        
           +-- Lampsilis_fasciola   

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