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Page last updated
Wed 01 May 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!

For each valid genus, the valid species are listed, Recent taxa first.

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini

genus Plethobasus Simpson, 1900: valid species
     1 nominal genus | Cladomics

Plethobasus cicatricosus (Say, 1829)
7 synonyms | 5 specimens
Range: Lower Ohio River Basin and Cumberland Plateau, USA. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered; Experimental population, non-essential.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Plethobasus cooperianus (Lea, 1834)
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Ohio Basin, including the Cumberland Plateau, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: ITS1.
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered; Experimental population, non-essential.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Plethobasus cyphyus (Rafinesque, 1820)
9 synonyms | 3 specimens
Range: Upper Mississippi and Ohio rivers, including the Cumberland Plateau, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Endangered.
Nature Serve: G2G3 Endangered.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Plethobasus aesopiformis (Whitfield, 1903) (Cretaceous)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range:
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Plethobasus biesopoides (Whitfield, 1907) (Cretaceous)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range:
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Page updated: 13:30:04 Wed 01 May 2024

 
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