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Elliptio pullata  (Lea, 1856)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 983646

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s): Unio pullatus Lea, 1856
  
    Unio tetricus Lea, 1857
  
    Unio extensus Lea, 1857
  
    Unio sublatus Lea, 1857
  
    Unio maconensis Lea, 1857
  
    Unio aquilus Lea, 1857
  
    Unio roswellensis Lea, 1858
  
    Unio viridiradiatus Lea, 1859
  
    Unio verutus Lea, 1859
  
    Unio mercerii Lea, 1862
  
    Unio singularis B. H. Wright, 1899
  
  Common Name(s): gulf spike [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  
                                     TribePleurobemini Hannibal, 1912  
                                        GenusElliptio Rafinesque, 1819  
                                           SpeciesElliptio pullata (Lea, 1856) – gulf spike  
       

 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: Elliptio pullata, gulf spike [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: Elliptio pullata   
       
  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: Elliptio pullata   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Haas, Fritz  
  Publication Date: 1969   
  Article/Chapter Title: Superfamilia Unionacea   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Das Tierreich, vol. 88   
  Page(s): x + 663   
  Publisher: Walter de Gruyter   
  Publication Place: Berlin, Germany   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0040-7305   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Elliptio pullata   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Williams, James D., Arthur E. Bogan, and Jeffrey T. Garner  
  Publication Date: 2008   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  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: Elliptio pullata   
       

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

 

    

 Comments
       
  Comment: In the Gulf Coastal drainages from the Escambia east to the Suwannee, USA  
 

 

    

 
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