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Thu 3 September 2025

The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Lampsilis

species Lampsilis cariosa (Say, 1817): specimens
     4 available nominal species synonyms (8 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Lampsilis cariosaGraf & Cummings (2007), Kneeland & Rhymer (2007), Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), ... FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2024), FMCS (2025)

Range

Atlantic Slope from Nova Scotia south to Georgia.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

species map


USA

specimen
MCZ_178839

Schuylkill River, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania