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Bivalvia | Venerida | Mactroidea | Mactridae

genus Rangia Des Moulins, 1832: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)

Synonymy

Gnathodon Sowerby, 1832

Gray in Sowerby, 1832. Genera of Shells: ??.
(homonym of Oken, 1816 (Pisces))

Rangia Des Moulins, 1832

Des Moulins, 1832. Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux 5: 50.

Rangianella Conrad, 1868

Conrad, 1868. Amer. J. Conch. 3: 30.

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Rangia — Anonymous (2008), WoRMS (2011), Bieler et al. (2014), Combosch et al. (2017), Soroka et al. (2018), Geda et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2025)

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