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Margaritiferidae

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Central America

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Data last updated
Thu 18 Dec 2025

Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae | Pseudunio

species Pseudunio flabellata (Goldfuss, 1837): synonymy

Synonymy

Unio flabellatus Goldfuss, 1837

Goldfuss, 1837. Petrefacta Germaniae 2: 182, pl. 132, fig. 4a-b.

Plicatibaphia flabellata — Starobogatov (1970)
Margaritifera (Pseudunio) flabellata — Schneider & Prieto (2011)
Margaritifera flabellata — Salvador et al. (2015), Araujo et al. (2016)
Pseudunio flabellatus — Lyubas et al. (2019)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Plicatibaphia flabellata — Starobogatov (1970)
Margaritifera (Pseudunio) flabellata — Schneider & Prieto (2011)
Margaritifera flabellata — Salvador et al. (2015), Araujo et al. (2016)
Pseudunio flabellatus — Lyubas et al. (2019)

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