Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Elliptio

species Elliptio shepardiana (Lea, 1834): specimens

1 available nominal species synonym (2 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Elliptio shepardianaGraf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), Campbell & Lydeard (2012), ITIS (2012), ... FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), MolluscaBase (2024), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)

Range

Waccamaw River, North Carolina south to the Altamaha River, Georgia, USA. (North America: NA3)

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

specimens map of Elliptio shepardiana

MUSSELp Specimen Records

Type Specimens

image of lot MCZ_155568
MCZ_155568
[Altamaha River] [Hopeton near Darien] McIntosh Co., Georgia
paratype
Unio shepardianus Lea, 1834

image of lot USNM_85857
USNM_85857
Hopeton, near Darien
topotype
Unio shepardianus Lea, 1834

GenBank Vouchers

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