Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae

genus Margaritifera Schumacher, 1815: species

14 available nominal genus synonyms (18 total synonyms) | cladomics

Included Species

Decorative image of a representative of Margaritifera dahurica

Margaritifera dahurica (Middendorff, 1850)

synonymy (7 available, 10 total) | specimens (4 + 16 GenBank vouchers)

Range: Amur Basin, Russia. (East Asia)

GenBank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, COI M-type, COII M-type, H3, mtGenome, SRA
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase

Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850)

synonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (1 + 10 GenBank vouchers)

Range: Pacific drainages from California north to Alaska, western North America; also from the upper Missouri River in Montana. (North America)

GenBank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3, mtGenome, ND1, other, SRA
IUCN Red List: Near Threatened
NatureServe: G3
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Margaritifera hembeli

Margaritifera hembeli (Conrad, 1838)

synonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (0 + 1 GenBank voucher)

Range: Louisiana, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, North America. (North America)

GenBank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, COII, COII M-type, H3, mtGenome, SRA
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A2abc
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Margaritifera laevis

Margaritifera laevis (Haas, 1910)

synonymy (6 available, 11 total) | specimens (16 + 25 GenBank vouchers)

Range: Kuril and Sakhalin islands, Russia and south through Japan. (East Asia)

GenBank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3, mtGenome, SRA
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient
other links: MolluscaBase

Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

synonymy (20 available, 34 total) | specimens (22 + 391 GenBank vouchers)

Range: Widespread in eastern North America and western Eurasia; reported from Iceland. (North America, North Eurasia)

GenBank sequences: 16S, 16S M-type, 18S, 28S, COI, COI M-type, COII M-type, H3, ITS1, mtGenome, mtGenome M-type, ND1, other, SRA
IUCN Red List: Endangered A2c
NatureServe: G4
other links: MolluscaBase

Margaritifera marrianae R.I. Johnson, 1983

synonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (1 + 1 GenBank voucher)

Range: Alabama, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, North America. (North America)

GenBank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3, mtGenome, ND1, other, SRA
IUCN Red List: Endangered A2c
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Margaritifera middendorffi

Margaritifera middendorffi (Rosén, 1926)

synonymy (3 available, 5 total) | specimens (5 + 20 GenBank vouchers)

Range: Southwestern and extreme southern Kamchatka, eastern Russia, south to Japan. (East Asia)

GenBank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3, mtGenome, SRA
IUCN Red List: Least Concern

Margaritifera antiqua Gu & Yu, 1976 (Cretaceous)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Cretaceous, China.

Margaritifera condoni (White, 1885) (Tertiary)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Miocene, North America.

other links: MolluscaBase

Margaritifera elongata (Martinson, 1982) (fossil)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Fossil, Mongolia.

Margaritifera endlichi (White, 1877) (Cretaceous)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Cretaceous, North America.

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Margaritifera geyeri Modell, 1931 (Tertiary)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Oligocene, Europe.

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Margaritifera glabra (Kolesnikov, 1956) (fossil)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Fossil.

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Margaritifera hantkeni Modell, 1950 (Tertiary)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Oligocene, Hungary. (North Eurasia)

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Margaritifera haushamensis Modell, 1931 (fossil)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

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Margaritifera herrei (Hannibal, 1912) (Tertiary)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Eocene, North America.

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Margaritifera inaequiradiatus (Gümbel, 1861) (fossil)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

other links: MolluscaBase

Margaritifera lagriega Delevene, Munt, Piñuela & García-Ramos, 2016 (Jurassic)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Late Jurassic, Spain. (North Eurasia)

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Margaritifera latiplicata (Noulet, 1846) (fossil)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Margaritifera onariotis (Mayer, 1869) (fossil)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Margaritifera plana (Ma, 1996) (Jurassic)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Jurassic, China. (East Asia)

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Margaritifera sainshandensis (Martinson, 1982) (fossil)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Fossil, Mongolia.

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Margaritifera schneideri Modell, 1931 (fossil)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

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Margaritifera sinopae (Cockerell, 1915) (Tertiary)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Eocene, North America.

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Margaritifera tanggulaensis (Wen in Zhang et al., 1979) (Jurassic)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Jurassic, China.

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Margaritifera valdensis (Mantell, 1844) (Cretaceous)

synonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Cretaceous, England and Spain. (North Eurasia)

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