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Publication Turner & Santhakumaran (1989): summary
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Complete Citation

Turner, R.D. & L.N. Santhakumaran. 1989. The genera Martesia and Lignopholas in the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pholadidae). Ophelia 30(3): 155-186.

Attributed Nominal Species

Lignopholas chengi Turner & Santhakumaran, 1989
Turner & Santhakumaran, 1989. Ophelia 30(3): 180, figs. 17-19.

Taxonomic Opinions

Lignopholas chengi N.SP.

Lignopholas clappi Turner, 1955

Lignopholas fluminalis (Blanford, 1867)

Lignopholas rivicola (Sowerby, 1849)

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