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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini genus Epioblasma Rafinesque, 1831: species
9 available nominal genus synonyms (15 total synonyms) | cladomics Epioblasma ahlstedti Jones & Neves, 2010
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Duck River, Tennessee, USA (North America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, Cytb, ITS1, ND1
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase |  Epioblasma arcaeformis (Lea, 1831)
syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, USA. EXTINCT. (North America)
IUCN Red List: Extinct
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
| Epioblasma aureola Jones & Neves, 2010
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Tennessee River, USA. (North America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, Cytb, ITS1, ND1
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase |  Epioblasma biemarginata (Lea, 1857)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Tennessee River, USA. EXTINCT. (North America)
IUCN Red List: Extinct
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma brevidens (Lea, 1831)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (3 + 4 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, Cumberland Plateau, USA. (North America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, Cytb, ITS1, ND1
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A1ce
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma capsaeformis (Lea, 1834)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (3 + 4 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, USA. (North America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, Cytb, ITS1, ND1, other
IUCN Red List: Endangered A2ac; B1ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v)
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma cincinnatiensis (Lea, 1840)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (2)
Range: Ohio Drainage, including the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Green rivers, USA. (North America)
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma curtisii (Frierson & Utterback in Utterback, 1916)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Ozark Plateau, USA. (North America)
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma flexuosa (Rafinesque, 1820)
syonymy (3 available, 5 total) | specimens (2)
Range: Lower Ohio Basin, USA. Extinct. (North America)
IUCN Red List: Extinct
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma florentina (Lea, 1857)
syonymy (3 available, 3 total) | specimens (2)
Range: Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, USA. EXTINCT. (North America)
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma gubernaculum (Reeve, 1865)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (2)
Range: Tennessee River, USA. EXTINCT. (North America)
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma haysiana (Lea, 1834)
syonymy (2 available, 5 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, USA. EXTINCT. (North America)
IUCN Red List: Extinct
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma lenior (Lea, 1842)
syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee, USA. EXTINCT. (North America)
IUCN Red List: Extinct
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma lewisii (Walker, 1910)
syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee, USA. EXTINCT. (North America)
IUCN Red List: Extinct
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma metastriata (Conrad, 1838)
syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Alabama and Tombigbee river systems, USA. (North America)
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A1ce
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma obliquata (Rafinesque, 1820)
syonymy (7 available, 13 total) | specimens (2)
Range: Ohio basin and the central Great Lakes, North America. (North America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma othcaloogensis (Lea, 1857)
syonymy (2 available, 4 total) | specimens (2)
Range: Upper Alabama basin, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA. (North America)
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered B1ab(i,ii,iii,iv)+2ab(i,ii,iii,iv)
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma penita (Conrad, 1834)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Lower Alabama and Tombigbee rivers, USA. (North America)
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A1c
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase
| Epioblasma perobliqua (Conrad, 1836)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Ohio River Basin and the Great Lakes, Interior Basin, North America. (North America)
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase |  Epioblasma personata (Say, 1829)
syonymy (3 available, 3 total) | specimens (3)
Range: Lower portions of the Ohio, Wabash and Tennessee rivers, USA. Extinct. (North America)
IUCN Red List: Extinct
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma propinqua (Lea, 1857)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (2)
Range: Lower Ohio basin and Cumberland Plateau, USA. Extinct. (North America)
IUCN Red List: Extinct
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma rangiana (Lea, 1838)
syonymy (4 available, 4 total) | specimens (3 + 2 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Widespread in the Ohio Basin and central Great Lakes, North America. (North America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, 5.8S, COI, Cytb, ITS1, ND1, other
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma sampsonii (Lea, 1861)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (2)
Range: Lower Ohio basin, USA. Extinct. (North America)
IUCN Red List: Extinct
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma stewardsonii (Lea, 1852)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Tennessee River, USA. EXTINCT. (North America)
IUCN Red List: Extinct
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma torulosa (Rafinesque, 1820)
syonymy (7 available, 13 total) | specimens (5)
Range: Widespread in the Ohio Basin, North America. Extinct. (North America)
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered A2ace
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma triquetra (Rafinesque, 1820)
syonymy (6 available, 7 total) | specimens (2 + 2 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Widespread in the Interior and Great Lakes basins, North America. (North America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 28S, COI, Cytb, ITS1, ND1
IUCN Red List: Endangered A2ce
NatureServe: G2
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma turgidula (Lea, 1858)
syonymy (3 available, 5 total) | specimens (4)
Range: Disjunct distribution in the Ozark and Cumberland plateaus, USA. Extinct. (North America)
IUCN Red List: Extinct
NatureServe: GX
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Epioblasma walkeri (Wilson & Clark, 1914)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1 + 2 Genbank vouchers)
Range: Cumberland River, USA. (North America)
Genbank sequences: 16S, COI, Cytb, ITS1, ND1
NatureServe: G1
other links: MolluscaBase
| Epioblasma tyrrelli (Russell, 1931) (Cretaceous)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Cretaceous, North America. |
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