MUSSELp

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | 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), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), MolluscaBase (2024), FMCS (2025)

Range

Waccamaw River, North Carolina south to the Altamaha River, Georgia, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

specimens map of Elliptio shepardiana

MUSSELp Specimen Records


USA

image of lot MCZ_155568
MCZ_155568

[Altamaha River] [Hopeton near Darien] McIntosh Co., Georgia

image of lot USNM_85857
USNM_85857

Hopeton, near Darien

Genbank Vouchers

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