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Bivalvia | Adapedonta | Hiatelloidea | Hiatellidae

genus Panopea Ménard de la Groye, 1807: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)

Synonymy

Glycimeris Lamarck, 1799

Lamarck, 1799. Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. 1: 83.
Type species: Mya glycimeris Born, 1778 (monotypy) = Panopea glycimeris

Panopea Ménard de la Groye, 1807

Ménard de la Groye, 1807. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 9: 135.
Type species: Panopea aldrovandi Ménard de la Groye, 1807 = Panopea glycimeris

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Panopea — Bieler et al. (2014), Combosch et al. (2017), Huang et al. (2025)

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