MUSSELpdb | valid sp. Platynaias decorata 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 Platynaias decorata (Lea, 1852): specimens
3 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Lasmigona (Platynaias) decorata — Graf & Cummings (2007)
Lasmigona decorata — Cummings & Graf (2010), Bogan (2010), Haag (2012), ITIS (2012), Williams et al. (2017), Inoue et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)

Range: Pee Dee and Wateree-Santee basins, southern Atlantic Slope basins, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map

USA
USNM_83972 Abbeville, S. Carolina	USNM_83974 Irwin’s Cr., Mechlenburg Co., N.C.	USNM_85402 near Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina

Page updated: 15:07:15 Wed 04 Dec 2024

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