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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Silesunionoidea | Unionellidae

genus Protovirgus McMichael, 1957: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (2 total species)

Synonymy

Protovirgus McMichael, 1957

McMichael, 1957. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales 81: 231.
Type species: Unio dunstani Etheridge, 1888 (orig. desig.) = Protovirgus dunstani

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

ProtovirgusMcMichael (1957), Hocknull (2000), Ponder et al. (2025)

 
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