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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 | Lampsilini

genus Epioblasma Rafinesque, 1831: valid species
     15 nominal genera as synonyms | Cladomics

Epioblasma ahlstedti Jones & Neves, 2010
2 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Duck River, Tennessee, USA [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, Cytb, ITS1, ND1.
Nature Serve: G1.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma arcaeformis (Lea, 1831)
2 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, USA. EXTINCT. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Extinct.
Nature Serve: GX.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma aureola Jones & Neves, 2010
2 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Tennessee River, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, Cytb, ITS1, ND1.
Nature Serve: G1.

Epioblasma biemarginata (Lea, 1857)
1 synonym | 1 specimen
Range: Tennessee River, USA. EXTINCT. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Extinct.
Nature Serve: GX.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma brevidens (Lea, 1831)
2 synonyms | 3 specimens
Range: Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, Cumberland Plateau, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, Cytb, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered; Experimental population, non-essential.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma capsaeformis (Lea, 1834)
2 synonyms | 3 specimens
Range: Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, Cytb, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Endangered.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered; Experimental population, non-essential.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma cincinnatiensis (Lea, 1840)
2 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Ohio Drainage, including the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Green rivers, USA. [North America]
Nature Serve: GXQ.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma curtisii (Frierson & Utterback in Utterback, 1916)
1 synonym | 1 specimen
Range: Ozark Plateau, USA. [North America]
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered.

Epioblasma flexuosa (Rafinesque, 1820)
5 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Lower Ohio Basin, USA. Extinct. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Extinct.
Nature Serve: GX.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma florentina (Lea, 1857)
3 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, USA. EXTINCT. [North America]
Nature Serve: GX Delisted.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma gubernaculum (Reeve, 1865)
1 synonym | 2 specimens
Range: Tennessee River, USA. EXTINCT. [North America]
Nature Serve: GX Delisted.

Epioblasma haysiana (Lea, 1834)
5 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, USA. EXTINCT. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Extinct.
Nature Serve: GX.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma lenior (Lea, 1842)
2 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee, USA. EXTINCT. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Extinct.
Nature Serve: GX.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma lewisii (Walker, 1910)
2 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee, USA. EXTINCT. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Extinct.
Nature Serve: GX.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma metastriata (Conrad, 1838)
2 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Alabama and Tombigbee river systems, USA. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: GX Delisted.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820)
13 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Ohio basin and the central Great Lakes, North America. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered; Experimental population, non-essential.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma othcaloogensis (Lea, 1857)
4 synonyms | 2 specimens
Range: Upper Alabama basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: GX Delisted.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma penita (Conrad, 1834)
1 synonym | 1 specimen
Range: Lower Alabama and Tombigbee rivers, USA. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma perobliqua (Conrad, 1836)
1 synonym | 1 specimen
Range: Ohio River Basin and the Great Lakes, Interior Basin, North America. [North America]
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered.

Epioblasma personata (Say, 1829)
3 synonyms | 3 specimens
Range: Lower portions of the Ohio, Wabash and Tennessee rivers, USA. Extinct. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Extinct.
Nature Serve: GX.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857)
1 synonym | 2 specimens
Range: Lower Ohio basin and Cumberland Plateau, USA. Extinct. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Extinct.
Nature Serve: GX.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma rangiana (Lea, 1838)
4 synonyms | 3 specimens
Range: Widespread in the Ohio Basin and central Great Lakes, North America. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, Cytb, ITS1, ND1.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma sampsonii (Lea, 1861)
1 synonym | 2 specimens
Range: Lower Ohio basin, USA. Extinct. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Extinct.
Nature Serve: GX.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma stewardsonii (Lea, 1852)
2 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Tennessee River, USA. EXTINCT. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Extinct.
Nature Serve: GX.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma torulosa (Rafinesque, 1820)
13 synonyms | 5 specimens
Range: Widespread in the Ohio Basin, North America. Extinct. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: GX Delisted.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma triquetra (Rafinesque, 1820)
7 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Widespread in the Interior and Great Lakes basins, North America. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, Cytb, ITS1, ND1.
IUCN Red List: Endangered.
Nature Serve: G2G3 Endangered.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma turgidula (Lea, 1858)
5 synonyms | 4 specimens
Range: Disjunct distribution in the Ozark and Cumberland plateaus, USA. Extinct. [North America]
IUCN Red List: Extinct.
Nature Serve: GX Delisted.
Other web site: ITIS.

Epioblasma walkeri (Wilson & Clark, 1914)
1 synonym | 1 specimen
Range: Cumberland River, USA. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, Cytb, ITS1, ND1.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered.

Epioblasma tyrrelli (Russell, 1931) (Cretaceous)
2 synonyms | 0 specimens
Range: Cretaceous, North America.

Page updated: 09:39:17 Mon 17 Feb 2025

 
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