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Bivalvia | Cardiida | Tellinoidea | Donacidae | Galatea

species Galatea nux (Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927): synonymy

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Synonymy

Egeria nux Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927. Bull. AMNH 53: 367, pl. 29, figs. 4-7.

Egeria nux — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Daget (1998), IUCN (2010)
Egeria nox [sic] — Bogan (2010)
Galatea nux — Huber (2010), WoRMS (2011), Kondakov et al. (2020)

Egeria nox Bogan, 2010

Bogan, 2010. FADA: [11].
(error for Egeria nux Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Egeria nux — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Daget (1998), IUCN (2010)
Egeria nox [sic] — Bogan (2010)
Galatea nux — Huber (2010), WoRMS (2011), Kondakov et al. (2020)

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