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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Eurynia

species Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820): specimens
     20 available nominal species synonyms (26 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Elliptio dilatata — Graf & Cummings (2007), Burdick & White (2007), Tiemann et al. (2007), Williams et al. (2008), Elderkin et al. (2008), ... Wu et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Klymus et al. (2020), Gasparini et al. (2020), Jeratthitikul et al. (2022)
Eurynia dilatata — Campbell & Lydeard (2012), Williams et al. (2017), Inoue et al. (2018), Pieri et al. (2018), Inoue et al. (2020), Smith et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Elliptio (Eurynia) dilatata — Campbell & Lydeard (2012), Burlakova et al. (2012), Perkins et al. (2017)
Eurynia (Elliptio) dilatata — Porto-Hannes et al. (2021)

Range

Widespread in the Interior and Great Lakes basins, North America.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

ANSP_20236. none given

USA

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

USA

UMMZ_265700. (COI) Clinton River, Michigan

UAUC_2721. (ND1) Duck River, Venable Spring, Marshall Co., TN

UMMZ_265701. (28S, COI) Huron River, MI

UAUC_2735. (ITS1, ND1) Obed River at Alley Ford, Morgan Co. TN

MMN4625 (Ed01_SouthF). (COI, ND1) South Fork of the Spring River, Fulton Co., AR (36.208, -91.3949)

UF_441302_1. (5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1) USA, Virginia, Russell County, Clinch River at Cleveland Islands (36.93711, -82.16432)

UF_441302_2. (5.8S, COI, ITS1, ND1) USA, Virginia, Russell County, Clinch River at Cleveland Islands (36.93711, -82.16432)