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Bivalvia | Myida | Myoidea | Myidae

genus Mya Linnaeus, 1758: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (2 total species)

Synonymy

Mya Linnaeus, 1758

Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat. 1: 670, gen. 269.
Linnaeus, 1767. Syst. Nat. 1(2): 1112.
Röding, 1798. Museum Boltenianum: 156.

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Mya — Zhadin (1965), Giribet & Wheeler (2002), Hallen et al. (2013), Bieler et al. (2014), Combosch et al. (2017), Geda et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2025)

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