Order Unionoida- Freshwater pearly mussels

Order Unionoida - Freshwater Pearly Mussels

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Family Etheriodidae


Family Hyriidae


Family Margaratiferidae    

Cumberlandia mondonta (Say, 1829) - Spectaclecase
Margaratifera falcata (Gould, 1850) - Western pearlshell
Margaratifera margaratifera (Linnaeus, 1758) - Eastern pearlshell


Family Unionidae

Subfamily Anodontinae

Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818 - Elktoe
Alasmidonta triangulata (I. Lea, 1858) - Southern elktoe
Alasmidonta undulata (Say, 1817) - Triangle floater
Alasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820) - Slippershell mussel
Anodonta beringiana Middendorff, 1851 - Yukon floater
Anodonta californiensis I. Lea, 1851 - California floater
Anodonta suborbiculata Say, 1831 - Flat floater
Anodontoides ferussacianus (I. Lea, 1834) - Cylindrical papershell
Anodontoides radiatus (Conrad, 1834) - Rayed creekshell
Arcidens confragosis (Say, 1829) - Rock pocketbook
Lasmigona alabamensis Clarke, 1985 - Alabama heelsplitter
Lasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823) - White heelsplitter
Lasmigona compressa (I. Lea, 1829) - Creek heelsplitter
Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820) - Flutedshell
Lasmigona holstonia (I. Lea 1838) - Tennessee heelsplitter
Pyganodon cataracta (Say, 1817) - Eastern floater
Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829) - Giant floater
Pyganodon lacustris (I. Lea, 1852) - Lake floater
Strophitus connasaugaensis (I. Lea, 1858) - Alabama creekmussel
Strophitus subvexus (Conrad, 1834) - Southern creekmussel
Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817) - Creeper
Utterbackia imbecillis (Say, 1829) - Paper pondshell
Utterbackia peggyae (R.I. Johnson 1965) - Florida floater

Subfamily Ambleminae

Amblema elliottii (I. Lea, 1856) - Coosa fiveridge
Amblema neislerii (I. Lea, 1858) - Fat threeridge
Amblema plicata (Say, 1817) - Threeridge
Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820) - Purple wartyback
Elliptio arca (Conrad, 1834) - Alabama spike
Elliptio arctata (Conrad, 1834) - Delicate spike
Elliptio buckleyi (I. Lea 1843) - Florida shiny spike
Elliptio complanata (Lightfoot, 1786) - Eastern elliptio
Elliptio crassidens (Lamarck, 1819) - Elephantear
Elliptio dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820) - Spike
Elliptio downiei (I. Lea, 1858) - Satilla elephantear
Elliptio hoptonensis (I. Lea 1838) - Altamaha slabshell
Elliptio icterina (Conrad, 1834) - Variable spike
Elliptio spinosa (I. Lea, 1836) - Altamaha spinymussel
Elliptio shepardiana (I. Lea, 1834) - Altamaha lance
Elliptio waccamawensis (I. Lea 1863) - Waccamaw spike
Elliptoideus sloatianus (I. Lea, 1840) - Purple bankclimber
Fusconaia barnesiana (I. Lea, 1838) - Tennessee pigtoe
Fusconaia cerina (Conrad, 1838) - Gulf pigtoe
Fusconaia cor (Conrad, 1834) - Shiny pigtoe
Fusconaia cuneolus (I. Lea, 1840) - Finerayed pigtoe
Fusconaia ebena (I. Lea, 1831) - Ebonyshell
Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820) Wabash pigtoe
Fusconaia subrotunda (I. Lea, 1831) - Longsolid
Fusconaia succissa (I. Lea, 1852) - Purple pigtoe
Lexingtonia dollabelloides (I. Lea, 1840) Slabside pearlymussel
Megalonaias nervosa (Rafinesque, 1820) Washboard
Plectomerus dombeyanus (Valenciennes, 1827) - Bankclimber
Pleurobema altum (Conrad, 1854) - Highnut
Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819) - Clubshell
Pleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820) - Ohio pigtoe
Pleurobema curtum (I. Lea, 1859) - Dark clubshell
Pleurobema decisum (I. Lea, 1831) - Southern clubshell
Pleurobema furvum (Conrad, 1834) - Dark pigtoe
Pleurobema georgianum (I. Lea, 1841) - Southern pigtoe
Pleurobema gibberum (I. Lea, 1838) - Cumberland Pigtoe
Pleurobema hanleyianum (I. Lea, 1852) - Georgia pigtoe
Pleurobema fritzi-new species? - Canoe creek pigtoe
Pleurobema marshallii Frierson, 1927 - Flat pigtoe
Pleurobema oviforme (Conrad, 1834) - Tennessee clubshell
Pleurobema perovatum (Conrad, 1834) - Ovate clubshell
Pleurobema pyriforme (I. Lea, 1857) - Oval pigtoe
Pleurobema rubrum (Rafinesque, 1820) - Pyramid pigtoe
Pleurobema sintoxia (Rafinesque, 1820) - Round pigtoe
Pleurobema taitianum (I. Lea, 1838) - Heavy pigtoe
Pleurobema troschelianum (I. Lea, 1852) - Alabama clubshell
Quadrula aurea (I. Lea, 1859) - Golden orb
Quadrula apiculata (Say, 1829) - Southern mapleleaf
Quadrula asperata (I. Lea, 1861) - Alabama orb
Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica (Say, 1817) - Rabbitsfoot
Quadrula metanevra (Rafinesque, 1820) - Monkeyface
Quadrula nodulata (Rafinesque, 1820) - Wartyback
Quadrula petrina (Gould, 1855) - Texas pimpleback
Quadrula pustulosa (I. Lea, 1831) - Pimpleback
Quadrula quadrula (Rafinesque, 1820) - Mapleleaf
Quadrula rumphiana (I. Lea, 1852) - Ridged mapleleaf
Quadrula refulgens (I. Lea, 1868) - Purple pimpleback
Quadrula stapes (I. Lea, 1831) - Stirrupshell
Quincuncina infucata (Conrad, 1834) - Sculptured pigtoe
Quincuncina mitchellii (Simpson, 1895) - False spike
Tritogonia verrucosa (Rafinesque, 1820) - Pistolgrip
Uniomerus carolineanus (Bosc, 1801) - Florida pondhorn
Uniomerus declivus (Say, 1831) - Tapered pondhord
Uniomerus tetralasmus (Say, 1831) Pondhorn

Subfamily Lampsilinae

Actinonaias ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819) - Mucket
Actinonaias pectorosa (Conrad, 1834) - Pheasantshell
Ellipsaria lineolata (Rafinesque, 1820) - Butterfly
Epioblasma brevidens (I. Lea, 1831) - Cumberland combshell
Epioblasma florentina walkeri (Wilson and H. W. Clark, 1914) - Tan riffleshell
Epioblasma metastriata (Conrad, 1838) - Upland combshell
Epioblasma othcaloogensis (I. Lea, 1857) - Southern acornshell
Epioblasma penita (Conrad, 1834) - Southern combshell
Epioblasma triquetra (Rafinesque, 1820) - Snuffbox
Glebula rotundata (Lamarck, 1819) - Round pearlshell
Hemistena lata (Rafinesque, 1820) - Crackling pearlymussel
Lampsilis abrupta (Say, 1831) - Pink mucket
Lampsilis altilis (Conrad, 1834) - Finelined pocketbook
Lampsilis brachteata (Gould, 1855) - Texas fatmucket
Lampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 1820 - Plain pocketbook
Lampsilis fasciola Rafinesque, 1820 - Wavyrayed lampmussel
Lampsilis higginsii (I. Lea, 1857) - Higgins Eye
Lampsilis hydiana (I. Lea, 1838) - Louisiana fatmucket
Lampsilis ornata (Conrad, 1835) - Southern pocketbook
Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1871) - Pocketbook
Lampsils perovalis (Conrad, 1834) - Orangenacre mucket
Lampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791) - Eastern lampmussel
Lampsilis siliquoidea (Barnes, 1823) - Fatmucket
Lampsilis splendida (I. Lea, 1838) - Rayed pink fatmucket
Lampsilis straminea (I. Lea, 1838) - Southern fatmucket
Lampsilis subangulata (I. Lea, 1840) - Shinyrayed pocketbook
Lampsilis teres (Rafinesque, 1820) - Yellow sandshell
Lampsilis virescens (I. Lea, 1858) - Alabama lampmussel
Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820) - Fragile papershell
Leptodea ocracea (Say, 1817) - Tidewater mucket
Ligumia subrostrata (Say, 1831) - Pondmussel
Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819) - Black sandshell
Medionidus acutissimus (I. Lea, 1831) - Alabama moccasinshell
Medionidus conradicus (I. Lea, 1834) - Cumberland moccasinshell
Medionidus parvulus (I. Lea, 1860) - Coosa moccasinshell
Obliquaria reflexa (Rafinesque, 1820) - Threehorn wartyback
Obovaria jacksoniana (Frierson, 1912) - Southern hickorynut
Obovaria olivaria (Rafinesque, 1820) - Hickorynut
Obovaria subrotunda (Rafinesque, 1820) - Round hickorynut
Obovaria unicolor (I. Lea, 1845) - Alabama hickorynut
Potamilus alatus (Say, 1817) - Pink heelsplitter
Potamilus capex (Green, 1832) - Fat pocketbook
Potamilus inflatus (I. Lea, 1830) - Inflated heelsplitter
Potamilus ohiensis (Rafinesque, 1820) - Pink papershell
Potamilus purpuratus (Lamarck, 1819) - Bleufer
Ptychobranchus fasciolaris (Rafinesque, 1820) - Kidneyshell
Ptychobranchus greenii (Conrad, 1834) - Triangular kidneyshell
Ptychobranchus subtentum (Say, 1825) - Fluted kidneyshell
Toxolasma corvunculus (I. Lea, 1868) - Southern pale lilliput
Toxolasma cylindrellus (I. Lea 1868) - Pale lilliput
Toxolasma lividus (Rafinesque, 1831) - Purple lilliput
Toxolasma parvus (Barnes, 1823) - Lilliput
Toxolasma paulus (I. Lea, 1840) - Iridescent lilliput
Toxolasma texasiensis (I. Lea, 1857) - Texas lilliput
Truncilla donaciformis (I. Lea, 1828) - Fawnsfoot
Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820 - Deertoe
Villosa delumbis (Conrad, 1834) - Eastern creekshell
Villosa iris (I. Lea, 1829) - Rainbow
Villosa lienosa (Conrad, 1834) - Little spectaclecase
Villosa nebulosa (Conrad, 1834) - Alabama rainbow
Villosa taeniata (Conrad, 1834) - Painted creekshell
Villosa trabilis (Conrad, 1834) Cumberland bean
Villosa umbrans (I. Lea, 1857) - Coosa creekshell
Villosa vanuxemensis (I. Lea, 1838) - Mountain creekshell
Villosa vibex (Conrad, 1834) - Southern rainbow
Villosa villosa (Wright, 1898) - Downy rainbow