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Bivalvia | Myida | Pholadoidea | Pholadidae

genus Lignopholas Turner, 1955: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)

Synonymy

Lignopholas Turner, 1955

Turner, 1955. Johnsonia 3(34): 98.
Type species: Lignopholas clappi Turner, 1955 = Lignopholas clappi

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Lignopholas — Turner & Santhakumaran (1989), Graf (2013), Bolotov et al. (2018), Kondakov et al. (2020)

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