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Bivalvia | Unionida | Silesunionoidea | Unionellidae

genus Megalovirgus Hocknull, 2000: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)

Synonymy

Megalovirgus Hocknull, 2000

Hocknull, 2000. Mem. Queensland Mus. 45: 412.
Type species: Protovirgus jaenschi Ludbrook, 1961 (orig. desig.) = Megalovirgus jaenschi

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Protovirgus — McMichael (1957), Kear & Godthelp (2008)
Megalovirgus — Hocknull (2000), Thompson & Stilwell (2010), Meakin (2011), Ponder et al. (2025)

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