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Bivalvia | Cardiida | Cardioidea | Cardiidae

genus Adacna Eichwald, 1838: synonymy

3 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)

Synonymy

Adacna Eichwald, 1838

Eichwald, 1838. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 11: 169.
Type species: Glycymeris laeviuscula Eichwald, 1829 (sub. desig. by Vest, 1875) = Adacna laeviuscula

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Adacna, since 1900.

Adacna — Lamy (1946), Slugina (2006), Bogan (2010), Kantor et al. (2010), Huber (2010), WoRMS (2011), Graf (2013), Wesselingh et al. (2019)
Adacna (s.s.) — Zhadin (1965), Starobogatov et al. (2004), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Didacna (s.s.) — Keen (1969)
Hypanis (Adacna) — Munasypova-Motyash (2006)
Hypanis — Kantor et al. (2010), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)

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