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Page last updated
Wed 27 Nov 2024

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 | Lampsilini | Potamilus

species Potamilus capax (Green, 1832): specimens
     3 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Potamilus capaxGraf & Cummings (2007), Tiemann et al. (2007), Watters et al. (2009), Cummings & Graf (2010), ..., Smith et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)

Range: Rare on the Ozark Plateau, Upper Mississippi and Ohio basins, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map


USA

specimen
USNM_84892

Davenport, Iowa

specimen
ANSP_56609

Ohio

 

Genbank Vouchers

USA

Mp_3951_Pcap (COI, ND1, 28S, ITS1, 5.8S) St. Francis River, St. Francis drainage (35.9592, -90.0638)

 

UAUC_36 (ND1)

Page updated: 11:02:40 Wed 27 Nov 2024

 
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