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Margaritiferidae

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Central America

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Etheriidae | Etheria elliptica

nominal species Aetheria elliptica E.A. Smith, 1880

Aetheria elliptica E.A. Smith, 1880 = Etheria elliptica

‘Lamarck’ E.A. Smith, 1880. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1880: 352.
(reference to Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807)

= Etheria elliptica

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Aetheria tanganikana Bourg. — Bourguignat, 1889

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