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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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genus Congeria Partsch, 1835: synonymy
     3 Recent valid species (5 total species)

Congeria Partsch, 1835
Partsch, 1835. Ann. Wiener Mus. 1: 97.
Type species: Congeria subglobosa Partsch, 1835 (sub. desig. by Pilsbry, 1911: 95) = Congeria subglobosa

Rhombocongeria Starobogatov, 1970
Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 83.
Type species: Congeria rhomboidea Hörnes, 1870 (orig. desig.) = Congeria rhomboidea

Rhomboidea Marinescu, 1973
Marinescu, 1973. Mém. Inst. geol. Bucarest 18: 33.
Type species: Congeria rhomboidea Hörnes, 1870 (orig. desig.) = Congeria rhomboidea

Enocephalus Münster, 1831
Münster, 1831. Zeitung f. Geogn.: 92.
Goldfuss, 1837. Petrefacta Germaniae 2: 171.

Aenoceophalus Herrmannsen, 1846
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: 21.
(error for Enocephalus Münster, 1831)

Congera Pavlovich, 1927
Pavlovich, 1927. Posebna Izdaña Srpska Kralyevska 17: 9.
(error for Congeria Partsch, 1835)

Cogeria Suklje & Poljak, 1934
Suklje & Poljak, 1934. Bull. Serv. Geol. Royaume Yougoslav 4(1): 193.
(error for Congeria Partsch, 1835)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

CongeriaPilsbry (1911), Nuttall (1990), Stepien et al. (2001), Stepien et al. (2003), Therriault et al. (2004), ... Graf (2013), Geda et al. (2018), Mansur et al. (2019), Príe et al. (2021), Morton & Bilandžija (2023)

 
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