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Mon 1 Dec 2025

Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina | Platynaias

species Platynaias decorata (Lea, 1852): specimens

3 available nominal species synonyms

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Lasmigona (Platynaias) decorata — Graf & Cummings (2007)
Lasmigona decorata — Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Williams et al. (2017), Inoue et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hata et al. (2022), Hopper et al. (2023), Perkins et al. (2025)
Platynaias decorata — FMCS (2025)

Range

Pee Dee and Wateree-Santee basins, southern Atlantic Slope basins, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

MUSSELp Specimen Records

USA

Genbank Vouchers

There are no georeferenced Genbank vouchers for this species in the MUSSELpdb.