MUSSELp

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Pleurobema

species Pleurobema plenum (Lea, 1840): specimens

1 available nominal species synonym (2 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Pleurobema plenumGraf & Cummings (2007), Burdick & White (2007), Williams et al. (2008), Watters et al. (2009), Bogan (2010), ... Klymus et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Pleurobema (Sintoxia) plenaCampbell & Lydeard (2012)
Pleurobema (Sintoxia) plenumBurlakova et al. (2012)

Range

Large-stream segments of the Interior Basin, from the Cumberland Plateau west perhaps to Kansas, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

specimens map of Pleurobema plenum

MUSSELp Specimen Records


USA

image of lot USNM_84677
USNM_84677

Cincinnati, Ohio

Genbank Vouchers

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