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Bivalvia | Sphaeriida | Sphaerioidea | Sphaeriidae | Euperinae

genus Byssanodonta d’Orbigny, 1846: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Byssanodonta d’Orbigny, 1846

d’Orbigny, 1846. Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale 5(3): 621.
Type species: Byssanodonta paranensis d’Orbigny, 1846 (monotypy) = Byssanodonta paranensis

Bysoanodonta d’Orbigny, 1846

d’Orbigny, 1846. Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale 5(3): pl. 84.
(error for Byssanodonta d’Orbigny, 1846)

Byssodonta Gray, 1847

Gray, 1847. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 15: 197.
(error for Byssanodonta d’Orbigny, 1846)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Byssanodonta, since 1900.

ByssanodontaThiele (1934), Mansur & Meier-Brook (2000), Korniushin & Glaubrecht (2002), Simone (2006), Rumi et al. (2008), Bogan (2010), Graf (2013), Pereira et al. (2014), Ituarte (2020)

 
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