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Thu 17 July 2025

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 | ... | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae | Cumberlandia

species Cumberlandia monodonta (Say, 1829): specimens
     2 available nominal species synonyms

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Margaritifera monodontaGraf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), Whelan et al. (2011), Pfeiffer & Graf (2015), Araujo et al. (2016), ... Huang et al. (2018), Inoue et al. (2018), Burzynski & Soroka (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Lor et al. (2020)
Cumberlandia monodontaZhou et al. (2007), Williams et al. (2008), Araujo et al. (2009), Elderkin (2009), Watters et al. (2009), ... Wu et al. (2022), Jeratthitikul et al. (2022), Hopper et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2025)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) monodontaBolotov et al. (2016)

Range

Widespread but discontinuous distribution in the Interior Basin of eastern North America.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

species map


USA

specimen
ANSP_41088

Ohio

specimen
USNM_1152201

United States; Missouri; St. Louis County; Meramec River at I-44 crossing, north of Times Beach near Eureka

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers


USA

UAUC_7. (16S, COI) Clinch River, Tennessee