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Publication Mulvey et al. (1997): summary

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Mulvey, M., C. Lydeard, D.L. Pyer, K.M. Hicks, J. Brim-Box et al. 1997. Conservation genetics of North American freshwater mussels Amblema and Megalonaias. Conservation Biology 11(4): 868-878. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.95487.x.

Taxonomic Opinions

Amblema elliottii = Amblema elliottii + Amblema plicata

+ Unio perplicatus Conrad, 1841

Amblema neislerii

Amblema plicata

Megalonaias nervosa

+ Unio boykinianus Lea, 1840

Utterbackia imbecillis

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