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Data last updated
Mon 1 Dec 2025

Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Pleurobema

species Pleurobema decisum (Lea, 1831): specimens

5 available nominal species synonyms (9 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Pleurobema chattanoogaense — Graf & Cummings (2007), Burdick & White (2007), Campbell et al. (2008), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Inoue et al. (2018), Morrison et al. (2021)
Pleurobema decisum — Graf & Cummings (2007), Burdick & White (2007), Williams et al. (2008), Campbell et al. (2008), Bogan (2010), ... FMCS (2021), Morrison et al. (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Pleurobema curtum — Williams et al. (2008)
Pleurobema chattanoogaensis — Hauck et al. (2023)

Range

Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

MUSSELp Specimen Records

USA

Genbank Vouchers

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

USA

UAUC_1621. (16S: AY655059, COI: AY655012, ITS1: DQ383448, ND1: AY655111, go to Genbank) Conasauga River, below Mitchell Bridge, Murray Co. GA.

UAUC_3194. (COI: AY613829, ND1: AY613801, go to Genbank) Dead River, 500 m below Terrapin Creek confluence, Cherokee Co. AL.

UAUC_3196. (COI: AY613832, ITS1: DQ383452, ND1: AY613805, go to Genbank) ditto.

UAUC_208. (16S: AF232776, COI: AF232801, go to Genbank) Sipsey River, Tombigbee Drainage, Alabama.

UAUC_253. (COI: AY655014, go to Genbank) Tallapoosa River, Chewacla Ck. S of CR 22 bridge crossing, 5 me E Tuskegee, Macon Co. AL.

UAUC_2997. (ND1: AY655112, go to Genbank) Tallapoosa River, Chewacla Creek at Rt 71 bridge, 5 mi E Tuskegee, Macon Co. AL.