MUSSELpdb | valid sp. Elliptio purpurella specimens

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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 purpurella (Lea, 1857): specimens
1 nominal species

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Elliptio purpurella — Graf & Cummings (2007), Williams et al. (2008), Cummings & Graf (2010), Bogan (2010), ..., Inoue et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Elliptio purpurellus — Haag (2012)

Range: In Gulf Coastal drainages from the Choctawhatchee to the Ochlockonee, Alabama, Florida and Georgia, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map

USA
USNM_85675 Flint R., Albany, Georgia

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