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Data last updated
Mon 2 March 2026

Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Paetulunio

species Paetulunio fabalis (Lea, 1831): specimens

4 available nominal species synonyms

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Villosa fabalis — Graf & Cummings (2007), Tiemann et al. (2007), Williams et al. (2008), Watters et al. (2009), Bogan (2010), ... Jones (2015), Lane et al. (2016), Williams et al. (2017), Klymus et al. (2020), Gasparini et al. (2020)
Paetulunio fabalis — Watters (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)

Range

Great Lakes, Ohio and Cumberland Plateau drainages, Canada and USA. (North America: NA2)

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

specimens map of Paetulunio fabalis

MUSSELp Specimen Records


USA

image of lot USNM_85271
USNM_85271

New Harmony, Ind

image of lot USNM_85270A
USNM_85270A

Ohio R.

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

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