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 Bivalvia | Adapedonta | Solenoidea | Pharidae | Pharellinae genus Novaculina Benson, 1830: synonymy5 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)
 Novaculina Benson, 1830Benson, 1830. Glean. Sci. 2: 63.
 Type species: Novaculina gangetica Benson, 1830 (monotypy) = Novaculina gangetica
 Loncosilla Rafinesque, 1831Rafinesque, 1831. Continuation: 7.
 Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 84.
 Type species: Loncosilla solenoides Rafinesque, 1831 (monotypy) = Novaculina gangetica
 Leucosilla Scudder, 1882‘Rafinesque’  of Authors.
 Scudder, 1882. Nomen. Zool., Suppl.: 187. [nomen nudum]
 Cox et al., 1969. Treatise on Invert. Paleo 2: N862.
 Williams et al., 2008. Freshw. Mussels AL and Mobile Basin: 102.
 (error for Loncosilla Rafinesque, 1831)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)Novaculina — Ghosh (1920), Brandt (1974), Subba Rao (1989), Nesemann et al. (2003), Nesemann et al. (2007), ... Bolotov et al. (2018), Kondakov et al. (2020), Ng et al. (2020), Win et al. (2021), Bolotov et al. (2022)  |