MUSSELpdb | valid sp. Elliptio folliculata specimens

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Thu 04 Apr 2024

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This page reports the specimens in the MUSSELpdb and provides a map if geocodes are known. The taxonomic history reports the record of different names and combinations that have been applied to this species (and its synonyms) since 2007.

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species Elliptio folliculata (Lea, 1838): specimens
4 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Elliptio folliculata — Graf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), ..., Inoue et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Elliptio folliculatus — Perkins et al. (2017)

Range: Cape Fear south to the Savannah, southern Atlantic Slope, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map

USA
USNM_85972 Macon, Ga.	USNM_85861 Savannah R., S.C.	USNM_85862 Savannah R., at Gov. Hamilton’s, Georgia
USNM_85974 Beaver Cr., Houston Co., Ga.

Page updated: 07:08:03 Thu 04 Apr 2024

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