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Margaritiferidae

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Central America

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Bivalvia | Cardioida | Cardioidea | Cardiidae | Adacna

species Adacna fragilis Milachewitch, 1908: synonymy

Synonymy

Adacna fragilis Milachewitch, 1908

Milachewitch, 1908. Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb. 2: 992.
Milachewitch, 1916. Moll. Mers Russes: 276, pl. 8, figs. 14-17.

Adacna fragilis — Lamy (1946), Bogan (2010), Kantor et al. (2010), Wesselingh et al. (2019)
Adacna (s.s.) laeviuscula var. fragilis — Zhadin (1965)
Adacna (s.s.) fragilis — Starobogatov et al. (2004), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Hypanis (Adacna) laeviuscula fragilis — Munasypova-Motyash (2006)
Adacna laeviuscula — WoRMS (2011), Graf (2013)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Adacna fragilis — Lamy (1946), Bogan (2010), Kantor et al. (2010), Wesselingh et al. (2019)
Adacna (s.s.) laeviuscula var. fragilis — Zhadin (1965)
Adacna (s.s.) fragilis — Starobogatov et al. (2004), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Hypanis (Adacna) laeviuscula fragilis — Munasypova-Motyash (2006)
Adacna laeviuscula — WoRMS (2011), Graf (2013)

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