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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae genus Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816: species
14 available nominal genus synonyms (18 total synonyms) | cladomics  Margaritifera dahurica (Middendorff, 1850)
syonymy (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
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850)
syonymy (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
IUCN Red List: Near Threatened
NatureServe: G3
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Margaritifera hembeli (Conrad, 1838)
syonymy (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
|  Margaritifera laevis (Haas, 1910)
syonymy (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
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)
syonymy (18 available, 31 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
syonymy (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
IUCN Red List: Endangered A2c
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Margaritifera middendorffi (Rosén, 1926)
syonymy (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
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
| Margaritifera antiqua Gu & Yu, 1976 (Cretaceous)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Cretaceous, China. | Margaritifera condoni (White, 1885) (Tertiary)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Miocene, North America.
other links: MolluscaBase | Margaritifera endlichi (White, 1877) (Cretaceous)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Cretaceous, North America.
other links: MolluscaBase | Margaritifera geyeri Modell, 1931 (Tertiary)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Oligocene, Europe.
other links: MolluscaBase | Margaritifera hantkeni Modell, 1950 (Tertiary)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Oligocene, Hungary. (North Eurasia)
other links: MolluscaBase | Margaritifera haushamensis Modell, 1931 (fossil)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
other links: MolluscaBase | Margaritifera herrei (Hannibal, 1912) (Tertiary)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Eocene, North America.
other links: MolluscaBase | Margaritifera inaequiradiatus (Gümbel, 1861) (fossil)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
other links: MolluscaBase | Margaritifera lagriega Delevene, Munt, Piñuela & García-Ramos, 2016 (Jurassic)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Late Jurassic, Spain. (North Eurasia)
other links: MolluscaBase | Margaritifera latiplicata (Noulet, 1846) (fossil)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0) | Margaritifera onariotis (Mayer, 1869) (fossil)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0) | Margaritifera plana (Ma, 1996) (Jurassic)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Jurassic, China. (East Asia)
other links: MolluscaBase | Margaritifera schneideri Modell, 1931 (fossil)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
other links: MolluscaBase | Margaritifera sinopae (Cockerell, 1915) (Tertiary)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Eocene, North America.
other links: MolluscaBase | Margaritifera tanggulaensis (Wen in Zhang et al., 1979) (Jurassic)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Jurassic, China.
other links: MolluscaBase | Margaritifera valdensis (Mantell, 1844) (Cretaceous)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Cretaceous, England and Spain. (North Eurasia)
other links: MolluscaBase |
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