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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Hyriinae | Castaliini | Castalia

species Castalia martensi (Ihering, 1891): synonymy

66 specimens

Synonymy

Castalia ambigua Clessin, 1888

‘Lamarck’ Clessin, 1888. Malak. Blatt. 10: 171.
(misidentified reference to Castalia ambigua Lamarck, 1819)

Castalia undosa martensiMansur (1970)
Castalia martensiMansur & Pereira (2006)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Castalina martensiSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Ortmann (1921), Haas (1931), Thiele (1934), Morretes (1949), Parodiz & Bonetto (1963), Figueiras (1965), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Graf (2000)
Castalia ambiguaCorsi (1900)
Castalia undosa martensiBonetto (1965), Mansur (1970), Bonetto & Mansur (1970)
Castalia martensiMansur et al. (1988), IUCN (1996), Simone (2006), Mansur & Pereira (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Pereira et al. (2014), Mansur et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)

 
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