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Bivalvia | Arcida | Arcoidea | Arcidae

genus Scaphula Benson, 1834: synonymy

5 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)

Synonymy

Scaphula Benson, 1834

Benson, 1834. Proc. Zool. Soc. London: 91.
Benson, 1836. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 5: 750.
Benson, 1856. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 17: 128.
Type species: Scaphula celox Benson, 1836 (sub. desig. by of Authors, 0) = Scaphula celox

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Scaphula — Ghosh (1922), Brandt (1974), Janaki Ram & Radhakrishna (1984), Subba Rao (1989), Nesemann et al. (2003), ... IUCN (2011), Graf (2013), Bogan & Do (2014), Bolotov et al. (2018), Ng et al. (2020)

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