MUSSELp

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Data last updated
Mon 1 Dec 2025

Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina | Platynaias

species Platynaias compressa (Lea, 1829): specimens

4 available nominal species synonyms (7 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Lasmigona (Platynaias) compressaGraf & Cummings (2007)
Lasmigona compressaZanatta et al. (2007), Tiemann et al. (2007), Chong et al. (2008), Watters et al. (2009), Jadhav & Jamkhedkar (2009), ... Hopper et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Perkins et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Platynaias compressaWu et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024), FMCS (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)

Range

Widespread in the Interior, Nelson, and Great Lakes basins, as well as the northern Atlantic Slope, North America.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

specimens map of Platynaias compressa

MUSSELp Specimen Records


USA

image of lot MCZ_154361
MCZ_154361

small brook in Middlebury, Vermont

image of lot USNM_83961
USNM_83961

Yellow Cr., Cincinnati, Ohio

Genbank Vouchers

There are no georeferenced Genbank vouchers for this species in the MUSSELpdb.