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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!

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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Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Quadrulini | Megalonaias

species Megalonaias nickliniana (Lea, 1834): specimens
     6 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Megalonaias nicklinianaGraf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2021), Czaja et al. (2023)
Megalonaias nicklineanaITIS (2012)
Megalonaias nervosaPfeiffer et al. (2018)

Range: Mexico to Guatemala.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map


Guatemala

specimen
SMF_15039

Rio de las Salinas, Guatemala

specimen
SMF_15040

Rio Usumacinta, Guatemala

specimen
BMNH_93-2-4-2035

flumen Usumacinta, Peten, Guatemala

specimen
AMNH_140574

Rio de la Pasion, Peten, Guatemala

specimen
AMNH_140573

Santa Amelia, Peten, Guatemala

specimen
OSUM_18867

Rio de la Pasion, Peten, Guatemala

specimen
OSUM_18871

Rio de la Pasion, Peten, Guatemala

specimen
ZMB_39464

Rio de las Salinas, Guatemala

specimen
MCZ_293587

Usumacinta River, Yaxchilan, 106 mi downstream from Sayache, Mexico

specimen
MCZ_249377

Rio de la Pasion, Santa Amelia, Peten, Guatemala

   

Honduras

specimen
MCZ_30507

A check of the on-line catalogue (20 December 2019) show no data for this specimen. The locality “Honduras” comes from the label. Dubious record.

   

Mexico

specimen
MCZ_5135

Tampico, Mexico

specimen
MCZ_52398

Mexico

specimen
USNM_83898

Canton China? [Central America]

specimen
AMS_102109

small river, 3 mi SE Emiliano Zapata, Tabasco, Mexico

specimen
MNHN_MP_1299

Tampico

specimen
USNM_83898B

Moctezuma River

specimen
AMNH_31226

Mexico

specimen
AMNH_30721

Mexico

specimen
AMNH_30750

Mexico

specimen
AMNH_31227

Mexico

specimen
OSUM_58285

Mexico

specimen
MCZ_288413

small river, 3 mi SE Emiliano Zapata, Tabasco, Mexico

COMA_B.0717 Río Pánuco, Veracruz, México


Nicaragua

specimen
FMNH_50540

Nicaragua

   

unknown

specimen
BMNH_1964367

China [no - Central America]

   

Page updated: 07:11:07 Thu 04 Apr 2024

 
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