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Taxonomy

Species & Genus Richness by
Taxonomy

Geography

Species Richness & Endemism by
Geography

Data last updated
Mon 1 Dec 2025

species Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820): specimens

20 available nominal species synonyms (26 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Elliptio dilatata — Graf & Cummings (2007), Burdick & White (2007), Tiemann et al. (2007), Williams et al. (2008), Elderkin et al. (2008), ... Wu et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Klymus et al. (2020), Gasparini et al. (2020), Jeratthitikul et al. (2022)
Eurynia dilatata — Campbell & Lydeard (2012), Williams et al. (2017), Inoue et al. (2018), Pieri et al. (2018), Inoue et al. (2020), Smith et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Elliptio (Eurynia) dilatata — Campbell & Lydeard (2012), Burlakova et al. (2012), Perkins et al. (2017)
Eurynia (Elliptio) dilatata — Porto-Hannes et al. (2021)

Range

Widespread in the Interior and Great Lakes basins, North America.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

specimens map of Eurynia dilatata

MUSSELp Specimen Records

ANSP_20236. none given

USA

USNM_150523 Armathwaite, Fentress Co., Tenn	ANSP_20248 Kentucky River	ANSP_20252 Kentucky River
USNM_86103 Ohio R., Cincinnati, Ohio	CM_61.4628 Presque Isle Bay, Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania	MNHN_MPL_0022 rapporte Lac Erie
USNM_128797 St. Francis R., Greenway, Clay Co., Arkansas	USNM_84969 Stone R., Tenn.

Genbank Vouchers

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

USA

UMMZ_265700. (COI: AF156506, go to Genbank) Clinton River, Michigan.

UAUC_2721. (ND1: AY655094, go to Genbank) Duck River, Venable Spring, Marshall Co., TN.

UMMZ_265701. (28S: AF400690, COI: AF156507, go to Genbank) Huron River, MI.

UAUC_2735. (ITS1: DQ383440, ND1: AY613789, go to Genbank) Obed River at Alley Ford, Morgan Co. TN.

MMN4625 (Ed01_SouthF). (COI: KF035280, ND1: KF035420, go to Genbank) South Fork of the Spring River, Fulton Co., AR (36.208, -91.3949).

UF_441302_1. (5.8S: MN649140, COI: MN649035, ITS1: MN649140, ND1: MN649084, go to Genbank) USA, Virginia, Russell County, Clinch River at Cleveland Islands (36.93711, -82.16432).

UF_441302_2. (5.8S: MN649141, COI: MN649036, ITS1: MN649141, ND1: MN649085, go to Genbank) ditto.