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Bivalvia | Venerida | Veneroidea | Veneridae | Meretrix lyrata

nominal species Cytheraea lyrata Sowerby, 1851

Cytheraea lyrata Sowerby, 1851 = Meretrix lyrata

Sowerby, 1851. Thesaur. Conch. 2(12): 621, pl. 129, fig. 61.

= Meretrix lyrata

Taxonomic Opinions

= Meretrix lyrata — Huang et al., 2025

= Meretrix lyrata — Wu et al., 2023

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