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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae | Pseudunio

species Pseudunio auricularius (Spengler, 1793): specimens
     6 available nominal species synonyms (19 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Margaritifera auricularia — Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Graf & Cummings (2009), Araujo et al. (2009), Araujo et al. (2009), ... Huang et al. (2018), Prié et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Múrria et al. (2020), Sano et al. (2020)
Pseudunio auricularia — Graf & Cummings (2007), Wu et al. (2020)
Margaritifera margaritifera — Watters et al. (2009)
Margaritifera (Pseudunio) auricularia — Bolotov et al. (2016)
Pseudunio auricularius — Lopes-Lima et al. (2018), Lyubas et al. (2019), Vikhrev et al. (2019), Guerra et al. (2019), Riccardi et al. (2020), Soroka (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Príe et al. (2021), Zieritz et al. (2021), Jeratthitikul et al. (2022), Prié et al. (2023), Zieritz et al. (2024)

Range

Southwestern Europe.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

France

INHS_21543. France

Spain

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

France

Mp_3529_Maur. (16S, 28S, COI) France: Vienne River

Spain

MNCN_FW1231-2. (16S) Canal Imperial de Aragón (Zaragoza, Spain)

MNCN_FW1238-12. (16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3) Canal Imperial de Aragón (Zaragoza, Spain)

MNCN_FW1238-13. (16S) Canal Imperial de Aragón (Zaragoza, Spain)

MNCN_FW1238-14. (16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3) Canal Imperial de Aragón (Zaragoza, Spain)

MNCN_Fw1238-15b. (COI) Canal Imperial de Aragón (Zaragoza, Spain)

MNCN_FW1238-26. (16S, COI) Canal Imperial de Aragón (Zaragoza, Spain)

MNCN_FW1238-33. (16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3) Canal Imperial de Aragón (Zaragoza, Spain)

MNCN_FW1238-34. (16S, COI) Canal Imperial de Aragón (Zaragoza, Spain)

MNCN_Fw1481. (16S, COI) Ebro River (Zaragoza, Spain)