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Mon 17 Feb 2025

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 Pleurobema Rafinesque, 1819: valid species
     11 nominal genera as synonyms | Cladomics

Pleurobema athearni Gangloff, Williams & Feminella, 2006
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Endemic to Canoe Creek in the Coosa Basin, Alabama. [North America]
Genbank sequences: COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema beadleianum (Lea, 1861)
4 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Western Gulf Coastal Plain, from Mississippi to Texas. [North America]
Genbank sequences: COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.
Nature Serve: G3.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819)
18 synonyms | 8 specimens
Range: Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, Upper Mississippi and Lake Erie basins, North America. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered, Extinct (Pleurobema bournianum).
Nature Serve: G1G2 Endangered; Experimental population, non-essential.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820)
7 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Widespread in Ohio Basin, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Lower Risk/near threatened.
Nature Serve: G4.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema curtum (Lea, 1859)
1 synonym | 1 specimen
Range: Tombigbee Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, Alabama and Mississippi. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: GH Endangered.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema decisum (Lea, 1831)
9 synonyms | 5 specimens
Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Endangered, Critically Endangered (Pleurobema chattanoogaense).
Nature Serve: G3 Endangered.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema fibuloides (Lea, 1859)
3 synonyms | 3 specimens
Range: Coosa River, USA. [North America]
Nature Serve: GX.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema georgianum (Lea, 1841)
7 synonyms | 6 specimens
Range: Coosa River, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered, Extinct (Pleurobema nucleopsis), Extinct (Pleurobema troschelianum).
Nature Serve: G1? Endangered.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema hanleyianum (Lea, 1852)
5 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Alabama River, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema hartmanianum (Lea, 1860)
3 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Coosa River, Alabama, USA. [North America]
Nature Serve: G1.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema marshalli Frierson, 1927
1 synonym | 1 specimen
Range: Tombigbee River, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: GX Delisted.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema oviforme (Conrad, 1834)
25 synonyms | 16 specimens
Range: Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1, mtGenome.
IUCN Red List: Vulnerable.
Nature Serve: G2G3 Proposed endangered.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema perovatum (Conrad, 1834)
13 synonyms | 10 specimens
Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. Extinct. [North America]
Genbank sequences: COI, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Extinct, Extinct (Pleurobema flavidulum), Extinct (Pleurobema johannis).
Nature Serve: G1G2 Endangered.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema plenum (Lea, 1840)
2 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Large-stream segments of the Interior Basin, from the Cumberland Plateau west perhaps to Kansas, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered; Experimental population, non-essential.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema pyriforme (Lea, 1857)
10 synonyms | 8 specimens
Range: From the Apalachicola River in Alabama and Georgia to peninsular Florida, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Endangered.
Nature Serve: G2 Endangered.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema riddellii (Lea, 1861)
3 synonyms | 3 specimens
Range: Louisiana and Texas, western Gulf Coastal Plain. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Lower Risk/near threatened.
Nature Serve: G1G2 Proposed threatened.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema rubellum (Conrad, 1834)
6 synonyms | 5 specimens
Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered, Extinct (Pleurobema avellanum), Critically Endangered (Pleurobema furvum), Extinct (Pleurobema hagleri).
Nature Serve: G1.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema sintoxia (Rafinesque, 1820)
38 synonyms | 10 specimens
Range: Widespread in the Mississippi River drainage and the Great Lakes, North America. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, COI M-type, COII, COII M-type, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Least Concern, Lower Risk/near threatened (Pleurobema rubrum).
Nature Serve: G2 (Pleurobema rubrum), G4G5.
Other web site: ITIS 2.

Pleurobema stabile (Lea, 1861)
2 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Coosa River, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: COI, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Extinct (Pleurobema murrayense).
Nature Serve: G1.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema strodeanum (B.H. Wright, 1898)
2 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Alabama and western Florida, from the Escambia to the Choctawhatchee, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1, SRA.
IUCN Red List: Vulnerable.
Nature Serve: G2G3 Threatened.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema taitianum (Lea, 1834)
5 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Endangered.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema verum (Lea, 1861)
2 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Black Warrior and Cahaba rivers, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, Alabama. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Extinct.
Nature Serve: GX.
Other web site: ITIS.

Pleurobema alixus (Dall, 1913) (Tertiary)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Pliocene, North America.

Pleurobema cryptorhynchus (White, 1877) (Cretaceous)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range:

Pleurobema dowlingi (McLearn, 1919) (Cretaceous)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range:

Pleurobema dyeri Russell, 1967 (Tertiary)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range:

Pleurobema humei (Dyer, 1930) (Cretaceous)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range:

Pleurobema proavitus (White, 1877) (Cretaceous)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range:

Pleurobema propheticus (White, 1876) (Cretaceous)
1 synonym | 0 specimens
Range: Cretaceous, North America.

Pleurobema stewardi (White, 1876) (Jurassic)
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Jurassic, North America.

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