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Bivalvia | Mytiloida | Mytiloidea | Mytilidae

genus Arcuatula Lamy, 1919: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (8 total species)

Synonymy

Arcuatula Lamy, 1919

Lamy, 1919. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 25: 173.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Modiola Lamarck, 1801)
Type species: Modiola arcuatula Hanley, 1844 (tautonomy) = Arcuatula arcuatula

Lamya Soot-Ryen, 1958

Soot-Ryen, 1958. Ann. Natal Mus. 14(2): 342.
Type species: Modiola capensis Krauss, 1848 = Arcuatula capensis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Brachidontes — Brandt (1974), Bogan (2010), Graf (2013)
Arcuatula — Huber (2010)

 
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