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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Sphaerioida | Sphaerioidea | Sphaeriidae | Euperinae genus Eupera Bourguignat, 1854: species
3 available nominal genus synonyms | cladomics Eupera bahamensis (Clench, 1938)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Described from the Bahamas. (Central America)
other links: MolluscaBase |  Eupera bahiensis (Spix & Wagner, 1827)
syonymy (4 available, 7 total) | specimens (6)
Range: Orinoco and Amazon basins, South America. (South America)
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient (Eupera moquiniana)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Eupera barbadensis (Prime, 1861)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Barbados, Caribbean. (Central America)
other links: MolluscaBase
| Eupera crassa (Mandahl-Barth, 1954)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Endemic to Lake Victoria, Africa. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered B1ab(iii)
other links: MolluscaBase |  Eupera cubensis (Prime, 1865)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Central America, Caribbean and southern United States. (North America, Central America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 5.8S, other
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
NatureServe: G5
other links: MolluscaBase
| Eupera degorteri (Kuiper, 1954)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Madagascar. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Endangered B2ab(i,ii,iii,iv)
other links: MolluscaBase | Eupera doellojuradoi Klappenbach, 1962
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Parana Basin, Brazil and Uruguay. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase | Eupera elliptica Ituarte & Mansur, 1993
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Iguazu River, Argentina. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase | Eupera ferruginea (Krauss, 1848)
syonymy (6 available, 8 total) | specimens (0 + 2 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar and Mauritius. (Afrotropics)
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase | Eupera gravis H.B. Baker, 1930
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Venezuela. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase | Eupera guaraniana Ituarte, 1994
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Uruguay River, South America. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase | Eupera haitiensis Klappenbach, 1970
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Haiti, Caribbean. (Central America)
other links: MolluscaBase | Eupera iguazuensis Ituarte, 1989
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Iguazu River, Argentina. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase | Eupera insignis Pilsbry, 1926
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Mexico. (Central America)
other links: MolluscaBase | Eupera klappenbachi Mansur & Veitenheimer, 1975
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase |  Eupera meridionalis (Prime, 1861)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Panama. (Central America)
other links: MolluscaBase
| Eupera modioliforme (Anton, 1837)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Venezuela and Brazil. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase | Eupera ovata (Mandahl-Barth, 1954)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Central Africa. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient
other links: MolluscaBase |  Eupera parvula (Prime, 1865)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Puerto Rico, Caribbean. (Central America)
other links: MolluscaBase
| Eupera pittieri Martens, 1900
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Costa Rica. (Central America)
other links: MolluscaBase | Eupera platensis Doello-Jurado, 1921
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Parana Basin, Argentina and Uruguay. (South America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, 5.8S
other links: MolluscaBase |  Eupera portoricensis (Prime, 1861)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Puerto Rico and Cuba, Caribbean. (Central America)
other links: MolluscaBase
| Eupera primei Klappenbach, 1967
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Upper Amazon, Peru. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase | Eupera simoni (Jousseaume, 1889)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Orinoco and Amazon basins, Venezuela and Brazil. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase |  Eupera singleyi (Pilsbry, 1889)
syonymy (3 available, 3 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Central and South America. (Central America)
other links: MolluscaBase
| Eupera sturanyi (Waagen, 1905)
syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Lower Congo, Africa. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase | Eupera triangularis Mandahl-Barth, 1973
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Zanzibar. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient (Eupera triangulum)
other links: MolluscaBase | Eupera troglobia Simone & Ferreira, 2022
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Casa da Pedra cave, Brazil. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase | Eupera tumida (Clessin, 1879)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Amazon Basin, Peru and Brazil. (South America)
other links: MolluscaBase |  Eupera veatleyi (Adams, 1849)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Jamaica, Caribbean. (Central America)
other links: MolluscaBase
| Eupera ventricosa (Clessin, 1882)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Haiti, Caribbean. (Central America)
other links: MolluscaBase |  Eupera viridantis (Prime, 1865)
syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Guadeloupe, Caribbean. (Central America)
other links: MolluscaBase
| Eupera weinlandi (Clessin, 1882)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Haiti, Caribbean. (Central America)
other links: MolluscaBase |
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