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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina | Utterbackiana

species Utterbackiana couperiana (Lea, 1840): specimens
     2 available nominal species synonyms (5 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Utterbackia couperiana — Graf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010)
Anodonta couperiana — Zanatta et al. (2007), Bogan (2010), Williams et al. (2011), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Williams et al. (2014), Smith et al. (2018)
Utterbackiana couperiana — Williams et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021), FMCS (2021), Whelan et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023)

Range

From the Cape Fear River of North Carolina south to Florida, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

USA