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genus Pleurobema Rafinesque, 1819: species

5 available nominal genus synonyms (11 total synonyms) | cladomics

Included Species

Pleurobema athearni Gangloff, Williams & Feminella, 2006

syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (0 + 1 Genbank voucher)

Range: Endemic to Canoe Creek in the Coosa Basin, Alabama. (North America)

Genbank sequences: COI, ITS1, ND1
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema beadleianum

Pleurobema beadleianum (Lea, 1861)

syonymy (2 available, 4 total) | specimens (2 + 1 Genbank voucher)

Range: Western Gulf Coastal Plain, from Mississippi to Texas. (North America)

Genbank sequences: COI, ITS1, ND1
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
NatureServe: G3
other links: MolluscaBase

Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819)

syonymy (11 available, 18 total) | specimens (8 + 155 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, Upper Mississippi and Lake Erie basins, North America. (North America)

Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1, other
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A1ce, Extinct (Pleurobema bournianum)
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema cordatum

Pleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820)

syonymy (3 available, 7 total) | specimens (1 + 1 Genbank voucher)

Range: Widespread in Ohio Basin, USA. (North America)

Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, ITS1, ND1
IUCN Red List: Lower Risk/near threatened
NatureServe: G3
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema curtum

Pleurobema curtum (Lea, 1859)

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1)

Range: Tombigbee Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, Alabama and Mississippi. (North America)

IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered B1ab(i,ii,iii,iv)
NatureServe: GH
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema decisum

Pleurobema decisum (Lea, 1831)

syonymy (5 available, 9 total) | specimens (5 + 6 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. (North America)

Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1
IUCN Red List: Endangered A2c; B1ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v)+2ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v), Critically Endangered A1ce+2ce (Pleurobema chattanoogaense)
NatureServe: G3
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema fibuloides

Pleurobema fibuloides (Lea, 1859)

syonymy (3 available, 3 total) | specimens (3)

Range: Coosa River, USA. (North America)

NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema georgianum

Pleurobema georgianum (Lea, 1841)

syonymy (6 available, 7 total) | specimens (6 + 3 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Coosa River, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, USA. (North America)

Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A1ce+2ce, Extinct (Pleurobema nucleopsis), Extinct (Pleurobema troschelianum)
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema hanleyianum

Pleurobema hanleyianum (Lea, 1852)

syonymy (2 available, 5 total) | specimens (2 + 2 Genbank vouchers)

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

Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A2ac
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema hartmanianum

Pleurobema hartmanianum (Lea, 1860)

syonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (2)

Range: Coosa River, Alabama, USA. (North America)

NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema marshalli

Pleurobema marshalli Frierson, 1927

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1)

Range: Tombigbee River, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. (North America)

IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A1ce+2ce
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema oviforme

Pleurobema oviforme (Conrad, 1834)

syonymy (18 available, 25 total) | specimens (16 + 82 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, USA. (North America)

Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, mtGenome, ND1
IUCN Red List: Vulnerable B1+2c
NatureServe: G2
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema perovatum

Pleurobema perovatum (Conrad, 1834)

syonymy (11 available, 13 total) | specimens (10 + 1 Genbank voucher)

Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. Extinct. (North America)

Genbank sequences: COI, ND1
IUCN Red List: Extinct, Extinct (Pleurobema flavidulum), Extinct (Pleurobema johannis)
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema plenum

Pleurobema plenum (Lea, 1840)

syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (1)

Range: Large-stream segments of the Interior Basin, from the Cumberland Plateau west perhaps to Kansas, USA. (North America)

Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A1ce
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema pyriforme

Pleurobema pyriforme (Lea, 1857)

syonymy (9 available, 10 total) | specimens (8 + 2 Genbank vouchers)

Range: From the Apalachicola River in Alabama and Georgia to peninsular Florida, USA. (North America)

Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1, other
IUCN Red List: Endangered A2ac
NatureServe: G2
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema riddellii

Pleurobema riddellii (Lea, 1861)

syonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (3 + 132 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Louisiana and Texas, western Gulf Coastal Plain. (North America)

Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1
IUCN Red List: Lower Risk/near threatened
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema rubellum

Pleurobema rubellum (Conrad, 1834)

syonymy (6 available, 6 total) | specimens (5 + 2 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. (North America)

Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A2ace, Extinct (Pleurobema avellanum), Critically Endangered A1ce+2ce (Pleurobema furvum), Extinct (Pleurobema hagleri)
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase

Pleurobema sintoxia (Rafinesque, 1820)

syonymy (19 available, 38 total) | specimens (10 + 205 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Widespread in the Mississippi River drainage and the Great Lakes, North America. (North America)

Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, COI M-type, COII, COII M-type, ITS1, ND1
IUCN Red List: Least Concern, Lower Risk/near threatened (Pleurobema rubrum)
NatureServe: G4
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema stabile

Pleurobema stabile (Lea, 1861)

syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (2)

Range: Coosa River, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, USA. (North America)

Genbank sequences: COI, ITS1, ND1
IUCN Red List: Extinct (Pleurobema murrayense)
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema strodeanum

Pleurobema strodeanum (B.H. Wright, 1898)

syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (2 + 4 Genbank vouchers)

Range: Alabama and western Florida, from the Escambia to the Choctawhatchee, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain. (North America)

Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1, SRA
IUCN Red List: Vulnerable A1c+2c, B1+2bcd
NatureServe: G2
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema taitianum

Pleurobema taitianum (Lea, 1834)

syonymy (3 available, 5 total) | specimens (2 + 1 Genbank voucher)

Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. (North America)

Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ND1
IUCN Red List: Endangered B1ab(i,ii,iii,iv)
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Pleurobema verum

Pleurobema verum (Lea, 1861)

syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (2)

Range: Black Warrior and Cahaba rivers, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, Alabama. (North America)

IUCN Red List: Extinct
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase

Pleurobema alixus (Dall, 1913) (Tertiary)

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

Range: Pliocene, North America.

other links: MolluscaBase

Pleurobema cryptorhynchus (White, 1877) (Cretaceous)

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

other links: MolluscaBase

Pleurobema dowlingi (McLearn, 1919) (Cretaceous)

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

other links: MolluscaBase

Pleurobema dyeri Russell, 1967 (Tertiary)

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

other links: MolluscaBase

Pleurobema humei (Dyer, 1930) (Cretaceous)

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

Pleurobema proavitus (White, 1877) (Cretaceous)

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

Pleurobema propheticus (White, 1876) (Cretaceous)

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

Range: Cretaceous, North America.

Pleurobema stewardi (White, 1876) (Jurassic)

syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Jurassic, North America.

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