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Publication Giribet & Distel (2003): summary
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Complete Citation

Giribet, G. & D.L. Distel. 2003. Bivalve phylogeny and molecular data. [in] Lydeard & Lindberg, Molecular Systematics and Phylogeography of Mollusks: 45-90.

Attributed Nominal Species

Psilunio littoralis Giribet & Wheeler, 2002
Giribet & Wheeler, 2002. Invert. Biol. 121(4): 277.
Giribet & Distel, 2003. Mol. Syst. Phylogeo. Moll.: 52.
Huff et al., 2004. J. Moll. Studies 70: 381 [as ‘Potomida littoralis’].
Jeffrey et al., 2016. J. Comp. Physiol. B 187: 91.
Vikhrev et al., 2018. Systemat. Biodiv. 16(1): Appendix 5 [as ‘Potomida littoralis’].
(misidentified reference to Unio littoralis Cuvier, 1798)

Taxonomic Opinions

Corbicula fluminea

Dreissena polymorpha

Elliptio complanata

Lampsilis cardium

Margaritifera margaritifera

Neotrigonia bednalli

Neotrigonia margaritacea

Psilunio littoralis = Potomida littoralis

Sphaerium striatinum

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