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Bivalvia | Cardioida | Tellinoidea | Donacidae | Galatea paradoxa

nominal species Venus meretrix Gmelin, 1791

Venus meretrix Gmelin, 1791 = Galatea paradoxa

Gmelin, 1791. Syst. Nat. 1(6): 3273, var. B.
(misidentified reference to Venus meretrix Linnaeus, 1758)

= Galatea paradoxa

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+ Egeria paradoxa (Born, 1780) — Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

 
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