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Bivalvia | Venerida | Veneroidea | Veneridae | Ruditapes

species Ruditapes aspera (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835): synonymy

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Synonymy

Venus aspera Quoy & Gaimard, 1835

Quoy & Gaimard, 1835. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. 3(2): 524, pl. 84, figs. 3-4.

Venerupis aspera — Wu et al. (2023), Huang et al. (2025)

Tapes variegata Sowerby, 1852

Sowerby, 1852. Thesaur. Conch. 2(13): 696.

Ruditapes variegatus — Wu et al. (2023)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Ruditapes variegatus — Wu et al. (2023)
Venerupis aspera — Wu et al. (2023), Huang et al. (2025)

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