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Plethobasus
Description | Plethobasus is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plethobasus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Unionida : Unionidae : Plethobasus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Scientific Name | Plethobasus Simpson, 1900 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name Published In | Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 22, no. 1205 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plethobasus |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Plethobasus cicatricosus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Plethobasus cooperianus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Plethobasus cyphyus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org). - via World Register of Marine Species |
SN2000/Boss, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 22, no. 1205 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Williams, J. D.; Bogan, A. E.; Garner, J. T. (2008). Freshwater mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 908 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species |
Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!