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Unionidae

Margaritiferidae

Hyriidae

Etheriidae

Mycetopodidae

Iridinidae


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North America

Central America

South America

Afrotropics

North Eurasia

East Asia

Australasia


Species Richness & Endemism by
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Data last updated
Mon 1 Dec 2025

Publication Krebs et al. (2003): summary

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Full Citation

Krebs, R.A., R.N. Vlasceanu & M.J.S. Tevesz. 2003. An analysis of diversity in freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) of the Cuyahoga and Rocky River watersheds (Ohio, USA). Journal of Great Lakes Research 29(2): 307-316. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio luteolus Sowerby, 1868 = Lampsilis siliquoidea

Sowerby, 1868. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 61, sp. 306; errata [originally as U. multiradiata].
Krebs et al., 2003. J. Gr. Lakes Res. 29(2): 311.
Krebs, 2004. Molec. Ecol. 13: 1702.
(misidentified reference to Unio luteola Lamarck, 1819)

Taxonomic Opinions

Alasmidonta triangulata

Amblema perplicata = Amblema plicata

Amblema plicata

Anodonta couperiana = Utterbackiana couperiana

Anodontoides radiatus = Strophitus radiatus

Ellipsaria lineolata

Elliptio dilatata = Eurynia dilatata

Elliptoideus sloatianus

Fusconaia flava

Lampsilis radiata luteola = Lampsilis radiata

Lampsilis siliquoidea

Lampsilis teres

Lasmigona complanata = Pterosyna complanata

Lasmigona compressa = Platynaias compressa

Lasmigona costata

Leptodea fragilis = Potamilus fragilis

Medionidus conradicus

Megalonaias nervosa

Obliquaria reflexa

Plectomerus dombeyanus

Pleurobema pyriforme

Potamilus alatus

Potamilus purpuratus

Ptychobranchus subtentum = Ptychobranchus subtentus

Pyganodon grandis

Quadrula apiculata = Quadrula quadrula

Quadrula metanevra = Theliderma metanevra

Quadrula quadrula

Strophitus undulatus

Toxolasma parvus = Toxolasma parvum

Uniomerus obesus = Uniomerus carolinianus

Utterbackia imbecillis

Villosa delumbis

 
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