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Thu 01 Jun 2023

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 | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae

genus Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816: valid species
     18 nominal genera as synonyms | Cladomics

Margaritifera dahurica (Middendorff, 1850)
9 synonyms | 8 specimens
Range: Amur Basin, Russia. [East Asia]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, COI M-type, COII, H3, mtGenome.
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850)
3 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Pacific drainages from California north to Alaska, western North America; also from the upper Missouri River in Montana. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3, ND1, mtGenome.
IUCN Red List: Near Threatened.
Nature Serve: G5.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Margaritifera hembeli (Conrad, 1838)
2 synonyms
Range: Louisiana, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, North America. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, COII, COII M-type, H3, SRA, mtGenome.
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered.
Nature Serve: G1G2 Threatened.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase 2.

Margaritifera laevis (Haas, 1910)
11 synonyms | 8 specimens
Range: Kuril and Sakhalin islands, Russia and south through Japan. [East Asia]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3, mtGenome.
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase 2 3.

Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)
31 synonyms | 22 specimens
Range: Widespread in eastern North America and western Eurasia; reported from Iceland. [North America, North Eurasia]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 16S M-type, 18S, 28S, COI, COI M-type, COII, H3, ITS1, ND1, SRA, mtGenome, mtGenome M-type.
IUCN Red List: Endangered.
Nature Serve: G4.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase 2 3.

Margaritifera marrianae R.I. Johnson, 1983
2 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Alabama, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, North America. [North America]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3, ND1, mtGenome.
IUCN Red List: Endangered.
Nature Serve: G1 Endangered.
Other web sites: ITIS MolluscaBase.

Margaritifera middendorffi (Rosén, 1926)
5 synonyms | 1 specimen
Range: Southwestern and extreme southern Kamchatka, eastern Russia, south to Japan. [East Asia]
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3, mtGenome.
IUCN Red List: Least Concern.
Other web site: ITIS 2.

Margaritifera antiqua Gu & Yu, 1976 (Cretaceous)
1 synonym
Range: Cretaceous, China.

Margaritifera condoni (White, 1885) (Tertiary)
1 synonym
Range: Miocene, North America.
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Margaritifera endlichi (White, 1877) (Cretaceous)
1 synonym
Range: Cretaceous, North America.
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Margaritifera geyeri Modell, 1931 (Tertiary)
1 synonym
Range: Oligocene, Europe.
Other web site: MolluscaBase 2.

Margaritifera hantkeni Modell, 1950 (Tertiary)
1 synonym
Range: Oligocene, Hungary. [North Eurasia]
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Margaritifera haushamensis Modell, 1931 (fossil)
1 synonym
Range:
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Margaritifera herrei (Hannibal, 1912) (Tertiary)
1 synonym
Range: Eocene, North America.
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Margaritifera inaequiradiatus (Gümbel, 1861) (fossil)
1 synonym
Range:
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Margaritifera lagriega Delevene, Munt, Piñuela & García-Ramos, 2016 (Jurassic)
1 synonym
Range: Late Jurassic, Spain. [North Eurasia]
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Margaritifera latiplicata (Noulet, 1846) (fossil)
1 synonym
Range:

Margaritifera onariotis (Mayer, 1869) (fossil)
1 synonym
Range:

Margaritifera plana (Ma, 1996) (Jurassic)
1 synonym
Range: Jurassic, China. [East Asia]
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Margaritifera schneideri Modell, 1931 (fossil)
1 synonym
Range:
Other web site: MolluscaBase 2.

Margaritifera sinopae (Cockerell, 1915) (Tertiary)
1 synonym
Range: Eocene, North America.
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Margaritifera tanggulaensis (Wen in Zhang et al., 1979) (Jurassic)
1 synonym
Range: Jurassic, China.
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

Margaritifera valdensis (Mantell, 1844) (Cretaceous)
1 synonym
Range: Cretaceous, England and Spain. [North Eurasia]
Other web site: MolluscaBase.

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