MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
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Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
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Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
by Geography
Data last updated
Wed 04 February 2026
Bivalvia | Cardiida | Tellinoidea | Tellinidae | Macoma
species Macoma balthica (Linnaeus, 1758): synonymy
Synonymy
Tellina balthica Linnaeus, 1758
Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat. 1: 677.
Macoma baltica [sic] — Zhadin (1965)
Macoma balthica — Starobogatov et al. (2004), Bieler et al. (2014), Combosch et al. (2017), Huang et al. (2025)
Macoma baltica Zhadin, 1965
‘Linnaeus’ Zhadin, 1965. Moll. USSR: 303.
(error for Tellina balthica Linnaeus, 1758)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
Macoma baltica [sic] — Zhadin (1965)
Macoma balthica — Starobogatov et al. (2004), Bieler et al. (2014), Combosch et al. (2017), Huang et al. (2025)
