WoRMS taxon details

Epioblasma triquetra (Rafinesque, 1820)

To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntype of Truncilla triqueter. Rafinesque, 1820. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 5: 300-301, pl. 81, figs. 1-4 - catalog no. 20231)
To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntype of Truncilla triqueter. Rafinesque, 1820. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 5: 300-301, pl. 81, figs. 1-4 - catalog no. 20231)

857306  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:857306)

  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. Lampsilini (Tribe)
  13. Epioblasma (Genus)
  14. Epioblasma triquetra (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Truncilla triqueter Rafinesque, 1820) Rafinesque C.S. (1820). Monographie des coquilles bivalves et fluviatiles de la Rivière Ohio, contenant douze genres et soixante-huit espéces. <em>Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques.</em> 5(5): 287-322, pls 80-82., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k991081/f2.image
page(s): 300, pl. 81, figs. 1-4 [details] 
Note North America - no locality available  
Type locality North America - no locality available [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Epioblasma triquetra (Rafinesque, 1820). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=857306 on 2025-06-20
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Nomenclature

original description (of Truncilla triqueter Rafinesque, 1820) Rafinesque C.S. (1820). Monographie des coquilles bivalves et fluviatiles de la Rivière Ohio, contenant douze genres et soixante-huit espéces. <em>Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques.</em> 5(5): 287-322, pls 80-82., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k991081/f2.image
page(s): 300, pl. 81, figs. 1-4 [details] 

original description (of Unio formosus I. Lea, 1831) Lea, I. (1831). Observations on the naïades, and descriptions of new species of that and other families. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> (NS) 4: 63-121, plates 3-18., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24786630
page(s): 111, pl. 16, fig. 41 [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] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
From editor or global species database
Type locality North America - no locality available [details]
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To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntype of Truncilla triqueter. Rafinesque, 1820. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 5: 300-301, pl. 81, figs. 1-4 - catalog no. 20231) (from synonym Truncilla triqueter Rafinesque, 1820)
To Barcode of Life (23 barcodes) 
To Conchology (Epioblasma triquetra) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Epioblasma triquetra) 
To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 18 proteins) 
To IUCN Red List (Endangered) 
To Malacopics (Epioblasma triquetra (Rafinesque,182)) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 743156 Exterior) 
From editor or global species database
To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntype of Truncilla triqueter. Rafinesque, 1820. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 5: 300-301, pl. 81, figs. 1-4 - catalog no. 20231)
To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntype of Truncilla triqueter. Rafinesque, 1820. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 5: 300-301, pl. 81, figs. 1-4 - catalog no. 20231)
Hosted externally, from synonym
Unreviewed
To Conchology (Epioblasma triquetra)
To Conchology (Epioblasma triquetra)
Hosted externally
To Malacopics (Epioblasma triquetra (Rafinesque,182))
To Malacopics (Epioblasma triquetra (Rafinesque,182))
Hosted externally
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 743156 Exterior)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 743156 Exterior)
Hosted externally
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 743156 Interior)
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 743156 Interior)
Hosted externally

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