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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 spinosa (Lea, 1836): specimens
     1 available nominal species synonym

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Elliptio spinosa — Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), IUCN (2012), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Williams et al. (2017), Perkins et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), MolluscaBase (2024)

Range

Endemic to the Altamaha River, Georgia, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

USA