Unio purpurellus I.Lea, 1857

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

SPECIES

Published in

Lea, I. (1857). Descriptions of twenty-seven new species of uniones from Georgia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 9: 169–172 [after 30 June 1857, possibly published in 1858]. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=221551

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Mollusca

class

Bivalvia

order

Unionida

family

Unionidae

genus

Elliptio

species

Elliptio purpurella

Name

Homonyms

Unio purpurellus I.Lea, 1857

Bibliographic References

1. Clench, W. J. & Turner, R. D. (1956). Freshwater mollusks of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida from the Escambia to the Suwannee River. <em>Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences.</em> 1(3): 97-239, pls. 1-9.
2. InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org).
3. Johnson, R. I. (1968). <i>Elliptio nigella</i>, overlooked unionid from Apalachicola River System. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 82(1): 22-24, figs. 1-6.
4. Lea, I. (1857). Descriptions of twenty-seven new species of uniones from Georgia. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 9: 169-172 [after 30 June 1857, possibly published in 1858].
5. Williams, J. D., Bogan, A. E. & Garner, J. T. (2008). Freshwater mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee. <em>University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.</em> 908 pp.