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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 Utterbackia imbecillis (Say, 1829): specimens
11 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Utterbackia imbecillis — Zanatta et al. (2007), Tiemann et al. (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Anonymous (2008), ..., Wu et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024)
Anodonta imbecillis — ITIS (2012)
U. imbecillis — Marshall et al. (2018)

Range: Widespread in the Interior, Great Lakes, Gulf Coastal, and Atlantic slope basins, North America. Introduced to peninsular Florida. Mexico?

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map

Mexico
USNM_86692 Matamoras, Mexico	USNM_903964 Rio Conchos, Saucillo, downstream from large cobble riffles, Chihuahua, Mexico	AMS_102107 canal, 20.5 mi WNW Anahuac, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
USNM_1282739 Veracruz, Rio Papaloapan off road from Ciudad Aleman to Tuxtepec; ca. 0.5 roadmiles by dirt road to river; dirt road entrance to Aleman-Tuxtepec road is ca. 2.4 roadmiles W of divergence of roads to Ciudad Aleman and Cosamaloapan	USNM_86692B Matamoras, Mexico	USNM_25975 Matamoras, Mexico
USNM_7078 Esteros d’eau douce. Matamoras.	USNM_1282735 Mexico: Coahuila. Rio Salado de Nadadores, 0.5 mi S Progresso on road to HW 57 [distance from HW 57 is 14.6 mi]	USNM_1282737 Tamaulipas, Rio Carrizal at Rt. Mex. 180 in Nuevo Progreso, ca. 20.8 mi N of road divergence (on Rt. Mex. 180) to Aldma and Est. Manuel
UF_41350 lake in the middele of a pasture, 1.6 mi SW Agualeguas, Nuevo Leon, Mexico	UF_41351 lake in the middele of a pasture, 1.6 mi SW Agualeguas, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
USA
UMMZ_209141 Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.	BMNH_196465 Comanche Creek, Texas	USNM_678301 Comanche Creek, [trib. of Pecos R., Pecos Co.], Texas
TMYERS_007 Lake Havasu, at Lake Havasu City, in a small cove off peninnsula into the Colorado River, Mohave Co., Arizona	USNM_25606 Ohio	USNM_892027 Bill Williams River, Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge, S of Cattail Marsh Near Lake Havasu, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA
TMYERS_001 Bill Williams River, Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge, S of Cattail Marsh Near Lake Havasu, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA
TMyers_0000 Mittry Lake, Yuma Co., Arizona, USA
unknown
SMF_4301 N. Amerika

Genbank Vouchers

UF_439469 (16S)

UF_439473 (COI)

ANSP_333563 (28S)

Page updated: 08:54:29 Fri 04 Apr 2025

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