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Bivalvia | Adapedonta | Solenoidea | Pharidae | Cultellinae

genus Ensis Schumacher, 1817: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (6 total species)

Synonymy

Ensis Schumacher, 1817

Schumacher, 1817. Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 143.

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Ensis — Giribet & Wheeler (2002), Combosch et al. (2017), Jeratthitikul & Sutcharit (2024), Huang et al. (2025)

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