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

species Utterbackiana couperiana (Lea, 1840): specimens

2 available nominal species synonyms (5 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Utterbackia couperiana — Graf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010)
Anodonta couperiana — Zanatta et al. (2007), Bogan (2010), Williams et al. (2011), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Williams et al. (2014), Smith et al. (2018), Galal-Khallaf et al. (2024)
Utterbackiana couperiana — Williams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021), FMCS (2021), Whelan et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), Perkins et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)

Range

From the Cape Fear River of North Carolina south to Florida, USA. (North America: NA3 NA4)

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

specimens map of Utterbackiana couperiana

MUSSELp Specimen Records

Type Specimens

image of lot USNM_86564
USNM_86564
Charleston, S. Carolina
holotype
Anodonta dunlapiana Lea, 1842

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

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