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Epioblasma turgidula  (Lea, 1858)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 80347

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s): Dysnomia turgidula (Lea, 1858)
  
    Unio turgidulus Lea, 1858
  
    Unio deviatus Reeve, 1864
  
    Truncilla lefevrei Utterback, 1916
  
  Common Name(s): turgid blossom [English]
  
    turgid blossom pearly mussel [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumSpiralia   
             PhylumMollusca  – mollusques, molusco, molluscs, mollusks  
                ClassBivalvia Linnaeus, 1758 – bivalves, clams, bivalves, palourdes, bivalve, mexilhão, ostra  
                   SubclassAutobranchia   
                      InfraclassHeteroconchia   
                         OrderUnionida   
                            SuperfamilyUnionoidea Rafinesque, 1820  
                               FamilyUnionidae Rafinesque, 1820  
                                  SubfamilyAmbleminae Rafinesque, 1820  
                                     TribeLampsilini Ihering, 1901  
                                        GenusEpioblasma Rafinesque, 1831  
                                           SpeciesEpioblasma turgidula (Lea, 1858) – turgid blossom, turgid blossom pearly mussel  
       

 References
       
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  Source: FMCS checklist of freshwater mussels (2021), PDF (version 09Aug2021)  
  Acquired: 2023   
  Notes: Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society (FMCS). Updated 09/08/2021. The 2021 checklist of freshwater bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionida) of the United States and Canada. Considered and approved by the Bivalve Names Subcommittee December 2020   
  Reference for: Epioblasma turgidula, turgid blossom [English]   
       
  Source: MUSSEL Project Web Site, website (version 08Aug2013)  
  Acquired: 2013   
  Notes: Graf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2013. The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves), updated 8 August 2013. MUSSEL Project Web Site, http://www.mussel-project.net   
  Reference for: Epioblasma turgidula   
       
  Source: MUSSEL Project Web Site (2023), website (version 15Nov2023)  
  Acquired: 2023   
  Notes: Graf, D. L. & K. S. Cummings. 2023. The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves), accessed 15 Nov 2023. MUSSEL Project Web Site, http://www.mussel-project.net   
  Reference for: Epioblasma turgidula   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Epioblasma turgidula   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Graf, Daniel L., and Kevin S. Cummings   
  Publication Date: 2007   
  Article/Chapter Title: Review of the systematics and global diversity of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionoida)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Journal of Molluscan Studies, vol. 73, part 4   
  Page(s): 291-314   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0260-1230   
  Notes: doi: 10.1093/mollus/eym029   
  Reference for: Epioblasma turgidula   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Turgeon, D. D., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, W. K. Emerson, W. G. Lyons, W. Pratt, et al.   
  Publication Date: 1988   
  Article/Chapter Title: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: American Fisheries Society Special Publication 16   
  Page(s): vii + 277   
  Publisher: American Fisheries Society   
  Publication Place: Bethesda, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-913235-47-4, 0097-0638  
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  Reference for: Epioblasma turgidula   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al.   
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26   
  Page(s): 526   
  Publisher: American Fisheries Society   
  Publication Place: Bethesda, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-888569-01-8, 0097-0638  
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  Reference for: Epioblasma turgidula   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Williams, James D., Arthur E. Bogan, and Jeffrey T. Garner   
  Publication Date: 2008   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Freshwater Mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee   
  Page(s): xv + 908   
  Publisher: The University of Alabama Press   
  Publication Place: Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8173-1613-2   
  Notes: doi: 10.1093/mollus/eym029   
  Reference for: Epioblasma turgidula   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Williams, James D., Melvin L. Warren, Kevin S. Cummings, John L. Harris, and Richard J. Neves   
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title: Conservation status of the freshwater mussels of the United States and Canada   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Fisheries, vol. 18, no. 9   
  Page(s): 6-22   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0363-2415   
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  Reference for: Epioblasma turgidula   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: North America  
       
  Jurisdiction/Origin: Continental US, Native & Extinct  
 

 

    

 Comments
       
  Comment: Turgeon et al. (1998) list this species as "possibly extinct"  
    Disjunct distribution in the Ozark and Cumberland plateaus, USA  
 

 

    


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