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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Elliptio

species Elliptio fisheriana (Lea, 1838): specimens
     1 available nominal species synonym (2 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Elliptio fisheriana — Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), IUCN (2011), ITIS (2012), Jones (2015), Williams et al. (2017), Inoue et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), MolluscaBase (2024)
Elliptio fisherianus — Haag (2012)

Range

Atlantic Slope from Virginia north to Pennsylvania.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

USA