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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Mycetopodidae | Monocondylaeinae

genus Fossula Lea, 1870: synonymy
     1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Fossula Lea, 1870
Lea, 1870. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 72, footnote.
Type species: Unio (Monocondylaea) fossiculifera d’Orbigny, 1835 (monotypy) = Fossula fossiculifera

Fossicula Marshall, 1925
Marshall, 1925. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 67(2576): 7.
(error for Fossula Lea, 1870)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

FossulaSimpson (1900), Ihering (1910), Simpson (1914), Ortmann (1921), Haas (1931), ... Pereira et al. (2014), Torres et al. (2018), Guerra et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), Torres et al. (2024)
IheringellaMorretes (1949)
HaasicaMorretes (1949)

 
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