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Bivalvia | Mytiloida | Mytiloidea | Mytilidae | Mytilaster minimus

nominal species Mytilaster lineatus Zhadin, 1952

Mytilaster lineatus Zhadin, 1952 = Mytilaster minimus

‘Gmelin’ of Authors.
Zhadin, 1952. Moll. SSSR (46): 285, fig. 248.
Zhadin, 1965. Moll. USSR: 232, fig. 248.
(misidentified reference to Mytilus lineatus Gmelin, 1791)

= Mytilaster minimus

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Mytilaster minimus (Poli, 1795) — Wesselingh et al., 2019

 
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