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Bivalvia | Cardiida | Tellinoidea | Tellinidae | Macoma

species Macoma balthica (Linnaeus, 1758): synonymy

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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)

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