MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
by Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
by Family
Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
by Geography
Data last updated
Fri 13 February 2026
Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Fusconaia
species Fusconaia escambia Clench & Turner, 1956: synonymy
1 specimen + 4 GenBank vouchers
Synonymy
Fusconaia escambia Clench & Turner, 1956
Clench & Turner, 1956. Bull. Fla. State Mus. 1: 152, pl. 7, figs. 3-4.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) MCZ_191470, Escambia River, 3 mi E of Century, Escambia Co., Florida.
Fusconaia escambia — Clench & Turner (1956), Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), ... Smith et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
Fusconaia escambia — Clench & Turner (1956), Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), ... Smith et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
