MolluscaBase taxon details

Elliptio spinosa (I. Lea, 1836)

To GB Mollusca Types (Unio spinosus I. Lea, 1836; Syntype(s) (possible); LEEDM.C.1957.173.26017)
To GB Mollusca Types (Unio spinosus I. Lea, 1836; Syntype(s) (possible); LEEDM.C.1957.173.26017)

857287  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:857287)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
  7. Palaeoheterodonta (Subterclass)
  8. Unionida (Order)
  9. Unionoidea (Superfamily)
  10. Unionidae (Family)
  11. Ambleminae (Subfamily)
  12. Pleurobemini (Tribe)
  13. Elliptio (Genus)
  14. Elliptio spinosa (Species)
accepted
Species
Elliptio spinosus (I. Lea, 1836) · unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet
Margarita (Unio) spinosus I. Lea, 1836 · unaccepted (original combination)
Margaron (Unio) spinosus (I. Lea, 1836) · unaccepted (recombination)
Unio (Canthyria) spinosus I. Lea, 1836 · unaccepted (recombination)
Unio spinosa I. Lea, 1836 · unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet
Unio spinosus I. Lea, 1836 · unaccepted (original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Unio spinosus I. Lea, 1836) Lea, I. (1836). Description of a new species of <i>Unio</i>. 1 p., 1 pl., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c026310960
page(s): [1], pl. [1] [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Elliptio spinosa (I. Lea, 1836). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=857287 on 2025-09-10
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Bieler, Rüdiger

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original description (of Unio spinosus I. Lea, 1836) Lea, I. (1836). Description of a new species of <i>Unio</i>. 1 p., 1 pl., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c026310960
page(s): [1], pl. [1] [details] 

original description (of Margarita (Unio) spinosus I. Lea, 1836) Lea, I. (1836). A synopsis of the family of naïades. Carey, Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia. pp. i-viii, 1-59, [+1, addenda], [+1, errata]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11632926
page(s): 17, frontispiece [details] 

basis of record Graf, D. & Cummings, K. (2007). Review of the systematics and global diversity of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionoida). <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> 73(4): 291-314. [details] 

additional source InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org). [details] 

additional source Tomkins, I. R. (1955). <i>Elliptio spinosus</i> in the Altamaha River. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 68(4): 132-133., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8516617 [details] 

additional source Thomas, G. J. & Scott, D. C. (1965). Note on <i>Elliptio spinosa</i> in Georgia. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 79(2): 66-67., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8517487 [details] 
LanguageName 
English Altamaha spinymussel  [details]
To GB Mollusca Types (Unio spinosus I. Lea, 1836; Syntype(s) (possible); LEEDM.C.1957.173.26017) (from synonym Unio spinosus I. Lea, 1836)
To GB Mollusca Types (Unio spinosus I. Lea, 1836; Syntype(s) (possible); TWCMS.C5179) (from synonym Unio spinosa I. Lea, 1836)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Unio spinosus Lectotype USNM 84374) (from synonym Unio spinosus I. Lea, 1836)
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed
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