MUSSELpdb | valid sp. Margaritifera margaritifera specimens

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Geography
	Summary North America Central America South America Afrotropics North Eurasia East Asia Australasia

Page last updated
Mon 13 Mar 2023

The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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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 Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758): specimens
31 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Margaritifera margaritifera — Zhou et al. (2007), Taylor et al. (2007), Kneeland & Rhymer (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), ..., FMCS (2021), Klunzinger et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2022), Jeratthitikul et al. (2022)
Margaritifera (s.s.) margaritifera — Bolotov et al. (2016)
Margaritana pirenaica — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)

Range: Widespread in eastern North America and western Eurasia; reported from Iceland.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map

Austria
INHS_20100 Austria
Finland
INHS_20094 Lappland
France
MNHN_22478 Carcenac (Aveyron)	MNHN_22479 l’Ance, près de Viverolles (Puy-de-Dôme)	MNHN_22368 Vire [Calvados]
MNHN_22371 La Bèbre (Allier) MNHN_22370 Lognes-Marche (Manche) MNHN_22369 l’Ance, près de Viverolles (Puy-de-Dôme)
Germany
SMF_4982 Ulfenbach bei Affolterbach	SMF_4984 Nister b. Hachenburg
INHS_198 Bayer Wald, Bavaria, Germany
Ireland
BMNH_1928-10-23-1-2 River Nore, Durrow, Queen’s Co., Ireland
BMNH_20001318 River Nore, Durrow, Queen’s Co., Ireland
Portugal
BMNH_93-2-4-1961 la Tamega, pres a Amarante, Portugal
Russia
INHS_21611 Varzuga River, about 50 km upstream of Varzuga on the Kola Peninsula, Mermansk, Russia
Sweden
INHS_18315 Gärån (a stream), 2.2 km N Sätila, Marks Kommun, Sweden INHS_17866 Iglabäcken Creek, 1.7 mi N Hajom, 3 km downstream Lake Bårredsjön, SE of Göteborg, in Western Sweden, Marks Kommun, Sweden INHS_21307 Lindåsbäcken, 1.8 km SSW Målsryd, downstream Hwy. 27 bridge, Borås Kommun, Västergötland, Sweden INHS_21309 Sävbäcken, 7.8 km NE Kinnarumma , Borås Kommun, Västergötland, Sweden INHS_21308 side channel of Sävbäcken, 0.98 km SSW Hulu, 4.9 km NE Kinnarumma , Borås Kommun, Västergötland, Sweden

Page updated: 09:33:31 Mon 13 Mar 2023

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