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

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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Elliptio

species Elliptio shepardiana (Lea, 1834): specimens
     1 available nominal species synonym (2 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Elliptio shepardiana — Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), Campbell & Lydeard (2012), ITIS (2012), ... FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), MolluscaBase (2024), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)

Range

Waccamaw River, North Carolina south to the Altamaha River, Georgia, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

USA