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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Etheriidae

genus Mulleria Férussac, 1824: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Mulleria Férussac, 1824

Férussac, 1824. Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. 1: 368.
Deshayes, 1827. Diction. Class. Hist. Nat. 11: 297.
Type species: Mulleria rivoli Deshayes, 1827 (subsequent designation) = Mulleria rivoli

Muelleria Menke, 1828

‘Férussac’ of Authors.
Menke, 1828. Syn. Method. Moll.: 58 [as ‘Mülleria’].
Menke, 1830. Syn. Method. Moll.: 98 [as ‘Mülleria’].
Herrmannsen, 1847. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 2: 61 [as ‘Mülleria’].
Philippi, 1853. Handb. Conch. Mal.: 533.
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 511 [as ‘Mülleria’].
Zittel, 1881. Handb. Palaeo. 1: 58 [as ‘Mülleria’].
(error for Mulleria Férussac, 1824)
Type species: Mulleria rivoli Deshayes, 1827 = Mulleria rivoli

Acostaea d’Orbigny, 1851

d’Orbigny, 1851. Rev. Mag. Zool. 3: 184 [as ‘Acostæa’].
Type species: Acostaea guaduasana d’Orbigny, 1851 (monotypy) = Mulleria rivoli

Eumulleria R. Anthony, 1907

R. Anthony, 1907. Ann. Soc. Roy. Zool. Malac. Belgique 41: 407.
Type species: Mulleria rivoli Deshayes, 1827 (original designation) = Mulleria rivoli

Acostea Gray, 1854

Gray, 1854. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 14: 26.
Zieritz et al., 2015. J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res. 53(1): 82.
(error for Acostaea d’Orbigny, 1851)
Type species: Acostaea guaduasana d’Orbigny, 1851 = Mulleria rivoli

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Mulleria, since 1900.

Acostaea — Thiele (1934), Pain & Woodward (1961), Yonge (1962), Heard & Vail (1976), Heard & Hanning (1978), ... Pereira et al. (2014), IUCN (2016), Mansur et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Breure et al. (2022)
Acostaea (s.s.) — Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Mulleria — Starobogatov (1970)
Monocondylea [sic] — Zieritz et al. (2015)

 
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