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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 Pleurobema Rafinesque, 1819: species 5 available nominal genus synonyms (11 total synonyms) | cladomics Pleurobema athearni Gangloff, Williams & Feminella, 2006 syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (0 + 1 Genbank voucher) Range: Endemic to Canoe Creek in the Coosa Basin, Alabama. (North America) Genbank sequences: COI, ITS1, ND1 IUCN Red List: Data Deficient NatureServe: G1 other links: MolluscaBase | Pleurobema beadleianum (Lea, 1861) syonymy (2 available, 4 total) | specimens (2 + 1 Genbank voucher) Range: Western Gulf Coastal Plain, from Mississippi to Texas. (North America) Genbank sequences: COI, ITS1, ND1 IUCN Red List: Least Concern NatureServe: G3 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819) syonymy (11 available, 18 total) | specimens (8 + 155 Genbank vouchers) Range: Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, Upper Mississippi and Lake Erie basins, North America. (North America) Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1, other IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A1ce, Extinct (Pleurobema bournianum) NatureServe: G1 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820) syonymy (3 available, 7 total) | specimens (1 + 1 Genbank voucher) Range: Widespread in Ohio Basin, USA. (North America) Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, ITS1, ND1 IUCN Red List: Lower Risk/near threatened NatureServe: G3 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema curtum (Lea, 1859) syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1) Range: Tombigbee Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, Alabama and Mississippi. (North America) IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered B1ab(i,ii,iii,iv) NatureServe: GH other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema decisum (Lea, 1831) syonymy (5 available, 9 total) | specimens (5 + 6 Genbank vouchers) Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. (North America) Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1 IUCN Red List: Endangered A2c; B1ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v)+2ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v), Critically Endangered A1ce+2ce (Pleurobema chattanoogaense) NatureServe: G3 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema fibuloides (Lea, 1859) syonymy (3 available, 3 total) | specimens (3) Range: Coosa River, USA. (North America) NatureServe: GX other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema georgianum (Lea, 1841) syonymy (6 available, 7 total) | specimens (6 + 3 Genbank vouchers) Range: Coosa River, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, USA. (North America) Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1 IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A1ce+2ce, Extinct (Pleurobema nucleopsis), Extinct (Pleurobema troschelianum) NatureServe: G1 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema hanleyianum (Lea, 1852) syonymy (2 available, 5 total) | specimens (2 + 2 Genbank vouchers) Range: Alabama River, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. (North America) Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1 IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A2ac NatureServe: G1 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema hartmanianum (Lea, 1860) syonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (2) Range: Coosa River, Alabama, USA. (North America) NatureServe: G1 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema marshalli Frierson, 1927 syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1) Range: Tombigbee River, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. (North America) IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A1ce+2ce NatureServe: GX other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema oviforme (Conrad, 1834) syonymy (18 available, 25 total) | specimens (16 + 82 Genbank vouchers) Range: Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, USA. (North America) Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, mtGenome, ND1 IUCN Red List: Vulnerable B1+2c NatureServe: G2 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema perovatum (Conrad, 1834) syonymy (11 available, 13 total) | specimens (10 + 1 Genbank voucher) Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. Extinct. (North America) Genbank sequences: COI, ND1 IUCN Red List: Extinct, Extinct (Pleurobema flavidulum), Extinct (Pleurobema johannis) NatureServe: G1 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema plenum (Lea, 1840) syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (1) Range: Large-stream segments of the Interior Basin, from the Cumberland Plateau west perhaps to Kansas, USA. (North America) Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1 IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A1ce NatureServe: G1 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema pyriforme (Lea, 1857) syonymy (9 available, 10 total) | specimens (8 + 2 Genbank vouchers) Range: From the Apalachicola River in Alabama and Georgia to peninsular Florida, USA. (North America) Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ITS1, ND1, other IUCN Red List: Endangered A2ac NatureServe: G2 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema riddellii (Lea, 1861) syonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (3 + 132 Genbank vouchers) Range: Louisiana and Texas, western Gulf Coastal Plain. (North America) Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1 IUCN Red List: Lower Risk/near threatened NatureServe: G1 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema rubellum (Conrad, 1834) syonymy (6 available, 6 total) | specimens (5 + 2 Genbank vouchers) Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. (North America) Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1 IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A2ace, Extinct (Pleurobema avellanum), Critically Endangered A1ce+2ce (Pleurobema furvum), Extinct (Pleurobema hagleri) NatureServe: G1 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema sintoxia (Rafinesque, 1820) syonymy (19 available, 38 total) | specimens (10 + 203 Genbank vouchers) Range: Widespread in the Mississippi River drainage and the Great Lakes, North America. (North America) Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, COI M-type, COII, COII M-type, ITS1, ND1 IUCN Red List: Least Concern, Lower Risk/near threatened (Pleurobema rubrum) NatureServe: G4 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema stabile (Lea, 1861) syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (2) Range: Coosa River, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, USA. (North America) Genbank sequences: COI, ITS1, ND1 IUCN Red List: Extinct (Pleurobema murrayense) NatureServe: G1 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema strodeanum (B.H. Wright, 1898) syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (2 + 4 Genbank vouchers) Range: Alabama and western Florida, from the Escambia to the Choctawhatchee, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain. (North America) Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1, SRA IUCN Red List: Vulnerable A1c+2c, B1+2bcd NatureServe: G2 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema taitianum (Lea, 1834) syonymy (3 available, 5 total) | specimens (2 + 1 Genbank voucher) Range: Mobile Basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. (North America) Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, ND1 IUCN Red List: Endangered B1ab(i,ii,iii,iv) NatureServe: G1 other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema verum (Lea, 1861) syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (2) Range: Black Warrior and Cahaba rivers, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, Alabama. (North America) IUCN Red List: Extinct NatureServe: GX other links: MolluscaBase
| Pleurobema alixus (Dall, 1913) (Tertiary) syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0) Range: Pliocene, North America. other links: MolluscaBase | Pleurobema cryptorhynchus (White, 1877) (Cretaceous) syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0) other links: MolluscaBase | Pleurobema dowlingi (McLearn, 1919) (Cretaceous) syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0) other links: MolluscaBase | Pleurobema dyeri Russell, 1967 (Tertiary) syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0) other links: MolluscaBase | Pleurobema humei (Dyer, 1930) (Cretaceous) syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0) | Pleurobema proavitus (White, 1877) (Cretaceous) syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0) | Pleurobema propheticus (White, 1876) (Cretaceous) syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0) Range: Cretaceous, North America. | Pleurobema stewardi (White, 1876) (Jurassic) syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (0) Range: Jurassic, North America. |
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