MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
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Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
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Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
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Data last updated
Mon 2 March 2026
Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Elliptio
species Elliptio dariensis (Lea, 1842): synonymy
Synonymy
Unio dariensis Lea, 1842
Lea, 1842. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 246 [84], pl. 26, fig. 61.
Lea, 1843. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 2: 225.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85691, Darien, Ga.
Unio (sec. Elliptio) dariensis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Elliptio (s.s.) dariensis — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1970), R.I. Johnson (1972), Burch (1975)
Elliptio dariensis — Kat (1983), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), Turgeon et al. (1998), ... Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023), MolluscaBase (2024), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Unio buckleyi Simpson, 1900
‘Lea’ Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 713.
(misidentified reference to Unio buckleyi Lea, 1843)
Elliptio (s.s.) buddianus — Frierson (1927)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
Unio (sec. Elliptio) dariensis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Elliptio) buckleyi — Simpson (1900)
Elliptio (s.s.) dariensis — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1970), R.I. Johnson (1972), Burch (1975)
Elliptio (s.s.) buddianus — Frierson (1927)
Elliptio dariensis — Kat (1983), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), Turgeon et al. (1998), ... Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023), MolluscaBase (2024), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
