WoRMS taxon details

Elliptio fraterna (I. Lea, 1852)

857275  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:857275)

  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 fraterna (Species)
accepted
Species
Unio fraternus I. Lea, 1852 · unaccepted (original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Unio fraternus I. Lea, 1852) Lea, I. (1852). Descriptions of new species of the family Unionidae. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> (NS) 10(2): 253-294, plates 12-29 [1 June 1852, teste Scudder (1885: 57)]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4529783
page(s): 263, pl. 16, fig. 15 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Elliptio fraterna (I. Lea, 1852). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=857275 on 2025-09-18
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2015-10-16 11:46:27Z
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Bieler, Rüdiger
2016-04-04 21:41:35Z
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Bieler, Rüdiger

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Nomenclature

original description (of Unio fraternus I. Lea, 1852) Lea, I. (1852). Descriptions of new species of the family Unionidae. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> (NS) 10(2): 253-294, plates 12-29 [1 June 1852, teste Scudder (1885: 57)]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4529783
page(s): 263, pl. 16, fig. 15 [details] 

basis of record 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. [details] 

Other

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

LanguageName 
English brother spike  [details]
To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Elliptio fraterna) 
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Unio fraternus I. Lea, 1852)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 85396 Unio fraternus) (from synonym Unio fraternus I. Lea, 1852)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Unio fraternus Lea, 1852 USNM 85396) (from synonym Unio fraternus I. Lea, 1852)
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