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Bivalvia | Veneroida | Veneroidea | Veneridae

genus Meretrix Lamarck, 1799: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (2 total species)

Synonymy

Meretrix Lamarck, 1799

Lamarck, 1799. Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. 1: 85.

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

MeretrixWoRMS (2011)

 
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