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Bivalvia | Venerida | Mactroidea | Mactridae

genus Tanysiphon Benson, 1858: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Tanysiphon Benson, 1858

Benson, 1858. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1: 407.
Type species: Tanysiphon rivalis Benson, 1858 = Tanysiphon rivalis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Tanysiphon — Subba Rao (1989), Bogan (2010), Huber (2010), WoRMS (2011), IUCN (2011), Graf (2013)

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