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

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genus Pustulosa Frierson, 1927: species
     2 available nominal genus synonyms | cladomics

Pustulosa infucata (Conrad, 1834)
syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (1 + 27 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Apalachicola and Ochlockonee rivers, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, USA. (North America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1, SRA
IUCN Red List: Lower Risk/near threatened (Fusconaia infucata)
NatureServe: G3
other links: MolluscaBase

Pustulosa kieneriana (Lea, 1852)
syonymy (3 available, 5 total) | specimens (3 + 13 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Coosa River basin, Alabama and Georgia, USA. (North America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1, SRA
IUCN Red List: Lower Risk/near threatened (Cyclonaias asperata)
NatureServe: G1 (Pustulosa archeri), GNR
other links: MolluscaBase

Pustulosa kleiniana (Lea, 1852)
syonymy (3 available, 3 total) | specimens (1 + 7 Genbank vouchers)
Range: In the Suwannee River Basin of southern Georgia and northern Florida, USA. (North America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1, SRA
NatureServe: G2
other links: MolluscaBase

Pustulosa necki (Burlakova, Karatayev, Lopes-Lima & Bogan in Burlakova et al., 2018)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1 + 33 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Endemic to the Guadalupe-San Antonio Basin in Texas, western Gulf Coastal Plain. (North America)
Genbank sequences: 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1, SRA
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase

Pustulosa nodulata (Rafinesque, 1820)
syonymy (2 available, 5 total) | specimens (2 + 12 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Widespread in the Interior Basin and the western Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. (North America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1, SRA
IUCN Red List: Least Concern (Cyclonaias nodulata)
NatureServe: G4
other links: MolluscaBase

Pustulosa petrina (Gould, 1855)
syonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (2 + 35 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Colorado River, Texas, western Gulf Coastal Plain. (North America)
Genbank sequences: 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1, SRA
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase

Pustulosa pustulosa (Lea, 1831)
syonymy (19 available, 31 total) | specimens (15 + 216 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Widespread in the Interior Basin and the Gulf Coastal Plain (west of the Mobile Basin), USA. (North America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 5.8S, COI, COI M-type, COII, COII M-type, ITS1, ND1, other, SRA
IUCN Red List: Least Concern (Cyclonaias pustulosa), Lower Risk/near threatened (Cyclonaias houstonensis), Lower Risk/near threatened (Cyclonaias refulgens)
NatureServe: G5
other links: MolluscaBase

Pustulosa succissa (Lea, 1852)
syonymy (3 available, 4 total) | specimens (2 + 24 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Choctawhatchee, Yellow, and Escambia river drainages, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain in Alabama and Florida. (North America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1, SRA
IUCN Red List: Least Concern (Cyclonaias succissa)
NatureServe: G3
other links: MolluscaBase

Pustulosa gardneri (Stanton, 1916) (Cretaceous)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Cretaceous, North America.

 
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