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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Etheriidae | Etheria elliptica

nominal species Margaritifera margaritifera Akindele et al., 2018

Margaritifera margaritifera Akindele et al., 2018 = Etheria elliptica

‘Linneaus’ of Authors.
Akindele & Olutona, 2015. Water Env. J. 29: 543 [as ‘Margaritifera sp.’].
Akindele et al., 2018. African J. Ecol. 56(3): 488, figs. S1-S2.
Ukam et al., 2018. Adv. in Res. 15(2): 1.
(misidentified reference to Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758)

= Etheria elliptica

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 — Bolotov et al., 2024

+ Aspatharia dahomeyensis — Akindele et al., 2023

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