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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenoididae | Polymesoda

species Polymesoda caroliniana (Bosc, 1801): specimens
     2 available nominal species synonyms (6 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Polymesoda caroliniana — Anonymous (2008), Hedtke et al. (2008), WoRMS (2012), ITIS (2012), OBIS (2012), Gonzáles et al. (2015), Combosch et al. (2017), Kondakov et al. (2020), Czaja et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023)

Range

Brackish, Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic north to Virginia.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

No map available.

There are no specimens for this species in the MUSSELpdb.