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Bivalvia | Mytilida | Mytiloidea | Mytilidae

genus Mytella Soot-Ryen, 1955: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)

Synonymy

Mytella Soot-Ryen, 1955

Soot-Ryen, 1955. Hancock Pac. Exped. 20: 47.
Type species: Modiola guyanensis Lamarck, 1819 (orig. desig.) = Mytella guyanensis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Mytella — Soot-Ryen (1955), Olsson (1961), Beauperthuy (1967), Keen (1971), Scarabino (2003), Ramírez et al. (2003), Boudreaux & Walters (2006), Rumi et al. (2008), Huber (2010), WoRMS (2011), Malacolog (2011), Graf (2013)

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