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Margaritiferidae

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Central America

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Data last updated
Thu 18 Dec 2025

Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Ptychobranchus

species Ptychobranchus subspatulatus (Meek & Hayden, 1857): synonymy

Synonymy

Unio subspatulata Meek & Hayden, 1857

Meek & Hayden, 1857. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 9: 146.

Unio subspatulatus — Henderson (1935)
Ptychobranchus subspatulatus — Modell (1957)

Ptychobranchus subspathulatus Modell, 1957

‘Meek & Hayden’ Modell, 1957. Arch. Moll. 86: 192.
(error for Unio subspatulata Meek & Hayden, 1857)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Unio subspatulatus — Henderson (1935)
Ptychobranchus subspatulatus — Modell (1957)

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