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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Mycetopodidae | Monocondylaeinae

genus Fossula Lea, 1870: species

1 available nominal genus synonym (2 total synonyms) | cladomics

Included Species

Fossula fossiculifera (d’Orbigny, 1835)

syonymy (5 available, 8 total) | specimens (36)

Range: Paraná and Uruguay rivers from Argentina to southern Brazil; Rio Paraguaçu, State of Bahia, Brazil, South America. (South America)

Genbank sequences: mtGenome
other links: MolluscaBase

 
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