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Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenidae | Corbicula nitens

nominal species Corbicula muelleriana Prime, 1867

Corbicula muelleriana Prime, 1867 = Corbicula nitens

specimen image from publicationPrime, 1867. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8: 59, fig. 3 [as ‘mülleriana’].

= Corbicula nitens

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Corbicula nitens (Philippi, 1844) — He & Zhuang, 2013

+ Corbicula fluminea (Muller, 1774) — Mackie, 2007

+ Corbicula nitens (Philippi, 1844) — Prashad, 1929

+ Corbicula fluminea Deshayes — Prime, 1895

= Corbicula mülleriana Prime — Clessin, 1877

= Corbicula mulleriana [sic] Prime — Prime, 1870

= Corbicula mülleriana nov. spec. — Prime, 1867

 
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