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Margaritiferidae

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Central America

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Publication Goldfuss (1820): summary

publication summary

Full Citation

Goldfuss, G.A. 1820. Handbuch der Zoologie 1. 696 pp.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Anadonta Say, 1818

‘Lamarck’ of Authors.
Say, 1818. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1(11): 459.
Goldfuss, 1820. Handb. Zool. 1: 611.
Ravenel, 1834. Cat. Rec. Shells: 7.
Grimm, 1876. Kaspinskoe Fauna: 143.
Pavan-Kumar et al., 2022. Mol. Biol. Rep. 49: Figure S5.
(error for Anodonta Lamarck, 1799)
Type species: Mytilus cygneus Linnaeus, 1758 = Anodonta cygnea

Taxonomic Opinions

Anadonta [sic] cygnea “Mart.” = Anodonta cygnea

Unio margaritifera “Drap.” = Margaritifera margaritifera

Unio pictorum “Drap.”

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