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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina | Alasmidonta

species Alasmidonta atropurpurea (Rafinesque, 1831): specimens
     1 available nominal species synonym

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Alasmidonta (Decurambis) atropurpurea — Graf & Cummings (2007)
Alasmidonta atropurpurea — Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Williams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Whelan et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Alasmidonta atropurpureum — IUCN (2012)

Range

Cumberland River, Ketucky and Tennessee, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

USA

USNM_150522. South Fork Cumberland River, Fentress Co., Tennessee