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Elliptio congaraea  (Lea, 1831)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 79957

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s): Elliptio waccamawensis (Lea, 1863)
  
    Unio congaraeus Lea, 1831
  
    Unio fulvus Lea, 1834
  
    Unio lecontianus Lea, 1838
  
    Unio planilateris Conrad, 1838
  
    Unio pusillus Lea, 1840
  
    Unio forbesianus Lea, 1852
  
    Unio moussonianus Lea, 1852
  
    Unio buxeus Lea, 1852
  
    Unio rufusculus Lea, 1852
  
    Unio sordidus Lea, 1852
  
    Unio gibbesianus Lea, 1852
  
    Unio corvus Lea, 1859
  
    Unio vestitus Lea, 1862
  
    Unio dorsatus Lea, 1868
  
    Unio strumosus Lea, 1872
  
    Unio waccamawensis Lea, 1863
  
  Common Name(s): Carolina slabshell [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 congaraea (Lea, 1831) – Carolina slabshell  
       

 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 congaraea, Carolina slabshell [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 congaraea   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Elliptio congaraea   
       
  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: Elliptio congaraea   
       
  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   
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  Reference for: Elliptio congaraea   
       
  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: Elliptio congaraea   
       
  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 congaraea   
       
  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: Elliptio congaraea   
       

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

 

    

 Comments
       
  Comment: Southern Atlantic Slope, from the Ogeechee River north to the Cape Fear, USA  
 

 

    

 
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