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Elliptio complanata (Lightfoot, 1786)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 79952

(Download Help) Elliptio complanata TSN 79952

Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Species
	Synonym(s):	Mya complanata Lightfoot, 1786
		Unio violaceus Spengler, 1793
		Unio purpureus Say, 1817
		Unio carinifera Lamarck, 1819
		Unio coarctata Lamarck, 1819
		Unio georgina Lamarck, 1819
		Unio glabrata Lamarck, 1819
		Unio purpurascens Lamarck, 1819
		Unio rarisulcata Lamarck, 1819
		Unio rhombula Lamarck, 1819
		Unio sulcidens Lamarck, 1819
		Unio virginiana Lamarck, 1819
		Unio aurata Rafinesque, 1820
		Unio fluviatilis Green, 1827
		Unio rigidus Wood, 1828
		Unio griffithianus Lea, 1834
		Unio subinflatus Conrad, 1835
		Unio jejunus Lea, 1838
		Unio fuliginosus Lea, 1845
		Unio cuvierianus Lea, 1852
		Unio geminus Lea, 1856
		Unio vicinus Lea, 1856
		Unio insulsus Lea, 1857
		Unio abbevillensis Lea, 1857
		Unio contractus Lea, 1857
		Unio virens Lea, 1857
		Unio savannahensis Lea, 1857
		Unio subflavus Lea, 1857
		Unio wheatleyi Lea, 1857
		Unio percoarctatus Lea, 1857
		Unio spadiceus Lea, 1857
		Unio neusensis Lea, 1858
		Unio exactus Lea, 1858
		Unio postellii Lea, 1858
		Unio purus Lea, 1858
		Unio burkensis Lea, 1859
		Unio baldwinensis Lea, 1859
		Unio raeensis Lea, 1859
		Unio decumbens Lea, 1861
		Unio squameus Lea, 1862
		Unio northamptonensis Lea, 1862
		Unio catawbensis Lea, 1862
		Unio rostrum Lea, 1862
		Unio weldonensis Lea, 1863
		Unio gastonensis Lea, 1863
		Unio aberrans Lea, 1863
		Unio mecklenbergensis Lea, 1863
		Unio raleighensis Lea, 1863
		Unio mediocris Lea, 1863
		Unio indefinitus Lea, 1863
		Unio chathamensis Lea, 1863
		Unio quadrilaterus Lea, 1863
		Unio curatus Lea, 1863
		Unio perlucens Lea, 1863
		Unio protensus Lea, 1865
		Unio tortuosus Sowerby, 1868
		Unio beaverensis Lea, 1868
		Unio uhareensis Lea, 1868
		Unio nubilus Lea, 1868
		Unio humerosus Lea, 1868
		Unio datus Lea, 1868
		Unio santeensis Lea, 1871
		Unio amplus Lea, 1872
		Unio ligatus Lea, 1872
		Unio yadkinensis Lea, 1872
		Unio subparallelus Lea, 1872
		Unio irwinensis Lea, 1872
		Unio infuscus Lea, 1872
		Unio ratus Lea, 1872
		Unio differtus Lea, 1872
		Unio dissimilis Lea, 1872
		Unio oblongus Lea, 1872
		Unio subsquamosus Lea, 1872
		Unio curvatus Lea, 1872
		Unio subolivaceus Lea, 1874
		Unio cirratus Lea, 1874
		Unio infulgens Lea, 1874
		Unio provancheriana Pilsbry, 1890
		Unio pullatus majusculus de Gregorio, 1914
		Unio complanatus mainensis Rich, 1915
	Common Name(s):	eastern elliptio [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Protostomia
	Superphylum	Spiralia
	Phylum	Mollusca – mollusques, molusco, molluscs, mollusks
	Class	Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758 – bivalves, clams, bivalves, palourdes, bivalve, mexilh�o, ostra
	Subclass	Autobranchia
	Infraclass	Heteroconchia
	Order	Unionida
	Superfamily	Unionoidea Rafinesque, 1820
	Family	Unionidae Rafinesque, 1820
	Subfamily	Ambleminae Rafinesque, 1820
	Tribe	Pleurobemini Hannibal, 1912
	Genus	Elliptio Rafinesque, 1819
	Species	Elliptio complanata (Lightfoot, 1786) – eastern elliptio

References


	Expert(s):
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	Other Source(s):
	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 complanata, eastern elliptio [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 complanata

	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 complanata

	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Elliptio complanata

	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
	Publisher:
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:	0260-1230
	Notes:	doi: 10.1093/mollus/eym029
	Reference for:	Elliptio complanata

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Haag, Wendell R.
	Publication Date:	2012
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	North American Freshwater Mussels: Natural History, Ecology, and Conservation
	Page(s):	538
	Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
	Publication Place:	New York, New York, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	9780521199384
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Elliptio complanata

	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
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Elliptio complanata

	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
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Elliptio complanata

	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
	Publisher:
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:	0363-2415
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Elliptio complanata

Geographic Information


	Geographic Division:	North America

	Jurisdiction/Origin:	Canada, Native
		Continental US, Native

Comments


	Comment:	Widespread from the Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes basins, and down the Atlantic Slope to Georgia, North America

Subordinate Taxa	Rank	Verified Standards Met	Verified Min Standards Met	Unverified	Percent Standards Met


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