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Bivalvia | Mytilida | Mytiloidea | Modiolidae | Xenostrobus securis

nominal species Modiola nitens Gould & Carpenter, 1857

Modiola nitens Gould & Carpenter, 1857 = Xenostrobus securis

Gould & Carpenter, 1857. unknown publication: ??.
(homonym of Modiolus nitens Menke, 1848)

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Limnoperna securis (Lamarck, 1819) — WoRMS, 2011: [web].

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