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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini

genus Parvaspina Perkins, Johnson & Gangloff, 2017: synonymy
     2 Recent valid species (2 total species)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Alasmidonta (Pressodonta) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Canthyria — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Pleurobema (Lexingtonia) — R.I. Johnson (1970)
Pleurobema — Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), Turgeon et al. (1998), ... ITIS (2012), Burlakova et al. (2012), Haag (2012), Jones (2015), Pfeiffer et al. (2016)
Fusconaia — Johnson & Clarke (1983)
Elliptio (Canthyria) — Johnson & Clarke (1983)
Elliptio — Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), Turgeon et al. (1998), Bogan (2002), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012)
Parvaspina — Perkins et al. (2017), Williams et al. (2017), Inoue et al. (2018), Inoue et al. (2020), Smith et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)