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Bivalvia | Mytiloida | Mytiloidea | Mytilidae

genus Mytilaster Monterosato, 1883: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)

Synonymy

Mytilaster Monterosato, 1883

Monterosato, 1883. unknown publication: ??.

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

MytilasterZhadin (1965), Öztürk et al. (2002), Scarabino (2003), Zenetos et al. (2005), Slugina (2006), Huber (2010), WoRMS (2011), Wesselingh et al. (2019)

 
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