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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Iridinidae | Iridininae | Mutela alata

nominal species Mutela elata Servain, 1890

Mutela elata Servain, 1890 = Mutela alata

‘Lea’ of Authors.
Servain, 1890. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 7: 303.
Brown, 1978. Biogeogr. Ecol. S. Africa: 1173.
(error for Spatha alata Lea, 1864)

= Mutela alata

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+ Mutela alata (Lea, 1864) — Daget, 1998

 
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