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Margaritiferidae

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Central America

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Bivalvia | Unionoida

genus Araripenaia da Silva, Varejão, Matos, Rodrigues, Fürsich, Skawina, Schneider, Warren, Assine & Simões, 2020: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Araripenaia da Silva et al., 2020

da Silva et al., 2020. Geobios 61: 46.
Type species: Araripenaia elliptica da Silva et al., 2020 (monotypy) = Araripenaia elliptica

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

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