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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Epioblasma

species Epioblasma rangiana (Lea, 1838): specimens
     4 available nominal species synonyms

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Epioblasma flexuosa — Graf & Cummings (2007)
Epioblasma torulosa rangiana — Zanatta & Murphy (2007), Zanatta & Murphy (2008), Watters et al. (2009), Jones & Neves (2010), Plazzi et al. (2011), ITIS (2012), Zanatta & Harris (2013), Inoue et al. (2018), Hewitt et al. (2019), Klymus et al. (2020), Gasparini et al. (2020)
Epioblasma torulosa — Williams et al. (2008)
Epioblasma obliquata — Williams et al. (2008)
Epioblasma rangiana — Campbell & Lydeard (2012), Williams et al. (2017), Burlakova et al. (2019), Smith et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)

Range

Widespread in the Ohio Basin and central Great Lakes, North America.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

Canada

USA

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

USA

INHS_85842-4. (28S: MK036076, 5.8S: MK036159, COI: MK044908, ITS1: MK036159, ND1: MK045059, go to Genbank) Allegheny River, Ohio (Allegheny) drainage (41.4723, -79.4998).

INHS_85842-5. (28S: MK036077, 5.8S: MK036160, COI: MK044909, ITS1: MK036160, ND1: MK045060, go to Genbank) ditto.