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Bivalvia | Cardiida | Cardioidea | Cardiidae

genus Monodacna Eichwald, 1838: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (7 total species)

Synonymy

Monodacna Eichwald, 1838

Eichwald, 1838. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 11: 167.

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Monodacna — Lamy (1946), Zhadin (1965), Petr (1992), Slugina (2006), Huber (2010), Bogan (2010), WoRMS (2011), Graf (2013), Wesselingh et al. (2019), Kondakov et al. (2020)
Adacna — Lamy (1946), Kantor et al. (2010)
Hypanis — Yurishinets et al. (2002), Kantor et al. (2010)
Adacna (Monodacna) — Starobogatov et al. (2004), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Hypanis (Monodacna) — Munasypova-Motyash (2006)

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