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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Mycetopodidae | Mycetopodinae | Mycetopodella

species Mycetopodella falcata (Higgins, 1868): synonymy

25 specimens

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Mycetopus falcatus Higgins, 1868

Higgins, 1868. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1868: 179, pl. 14, fig. 6.
Type(s): SYNTYPE BMNH_68-4-3-6, Forest streams near Chyavetas, Upper Amazons [Brazil].

Solenaia falcataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Mycetopodella falcataMarshall (1927), Thiele (1934), Parodiz & Bonetto (1963), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Pereira et al. (2014), Mansur et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Breure et al. (2022)
Mycetopodella falcatusHaas (1969), Ramírez et al. (2003), Simone (2006)

Mycetopoda bolivari Haas, 1916

Haas, 1916. Trab. Mus. Nacion. Cienc. Nat., Madrid 25: 36, pl. 2, fig. 2.

Mycetopodella falcataMarshall (1927), Haas (1969), Breure et al. (2022)
Mycetopodella falcatusSimone (2006)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Solenaia falcataSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Mycetopodella falcataMarshall (1927), Thiele (1934), Parodiz & Bonetto (1963), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Pereira et al. (2014), Mansur et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Breure et al. (2022)
Mycetopodella falcatusHaas (1969), Ramírez et al. (2003), Simone (2006)

 
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