MCZ Malacology 20167

Elliptio dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)

Paralectotype of Unio gibbosus var. armathwaitensis  
  Syntype of Unio gibbosus var. armathwaitensis

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 2008-12-16

North America: United States: Tennessee | Cumberland River, S. Fork

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Mala:20167 JSON-LD

Media type: image; Malacology 20167 Description: Preserved specimen.;

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Current Identification
Elliptio dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820) linked data icon
Animalia Mollusca Bivalvia Palaeoheterodonta Unionoida Unionoidea Unionidae
Common Name(s): spike
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Remarks: as per ITIS 2021-05-14
Previous Identifications
Unio armathwaitensis Wright, B. H.
Animalia Mollusca Bivalvia Palaeoheterodonta Unionoida Unionoidea Unionidae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: type ID
Unio gibbosus var. armathwaitensis B.H. Wright, 1898 linked data icon
Animalia Mollusca Bivalvia Palaeoheterodonta Unionoida Unionoidea Unionidae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: type ID

Wright 1898, page 123, Syntype of Unio gibbosus var. armathwaitensis B.H. Wright, 1898
Johnson 1956, page 106, Voucher of Unio gibbosus var. armathwaitensis B.H. Wright, 1898 cited as paratype
Johnson 1967, page 5, Paralectotype of Unio gibbosus var. armathwaitensis B.H. Wright, 1898 Cited as Unio gibbosus armathwaitensis
Watters et al. 2009, page 86, Voucher of Unio gibbosus var. armathwaitensis B.H. Wright, 1898 cited as paratype
Media type: text; Wright 1898 Description: New varieties of unionidae;

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Media type: text; Johnson 1956 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. CXV no. 4;

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Media type: text; Johnson 1967 Description: Illustrations of all the mollusks described by Berlin Hart and Samuel Hart Wright;

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  • malacology accession number: 160

Part Condition Disposition Count
shell (dry) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: Verified on shelf summer 2018.
tissue (dry) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: tissue; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2023-08-07
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2023-08-02   determined by=Nina Black  

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2023-08-07

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  • Continent:
  • North America
  • Country:
  • United States
  • State/Province:
  • Tennessee
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7007825 linked data icon
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Cumberland River, S. Fork
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • USA, Tennessee, Cumberland River, S. Fork
  • Georeference:
  • 37.1433890°, -88.407538° (Error radius: 210m) By: Brendan Haley on 2019-06-10 (Source: GEOLocate batch georeferencing, 2019-06-10)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 2008-12-16
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collecting Event Remarks:
  • End of date collected range set to latest date of data entry for a cataloged item in this collecting event
  • Collector:
  • [no agent data]

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Media type: text; Malacology 20151; 20152; 20153; 20154; 20155; 20156; 20157; 20158; 20159; 20160; 20161; 20162; 20163; 20164; 20165; 20166; 20167; 20168; 20169; 20170; 20171; 20172; 20173; 20174; 20175 Description: MCZ Malacology Mollusca 018001-024000, pg.87;

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Ledger Entry for: 25 cataloged items from MCZ:Mala:20151 Unio mitchelli to MCZ:Mala:20175...

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