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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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genus Adacna Eichwald, 1838: synonymy
     3 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)

Adacna Eichwald, 1838
Eichwald, 1838. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 11: 169.
Type species: Glycymeris laeviuscula Eichwald, 1829 (sub. desig. by Vest, 1875) = Adacna laeviuscula

Glycymeris Eichwald, 1829
‘Lamarck’ Eichwald, 1829. Zool. Spec. Rossiae 1: 279.
‘Lamarck’ Eichwald, 1838. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 11: 169.
(error for Glycimeris Lamarck, 1799)

Clycymeris Ménétries, 1832
Ménétries, 1832. Cat. rais. obj. zool. Caucase: 271.
(error for Glycimeris Lamarck, 1799)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

AdacnaLamy (1946), Slugina (2006), Bogan (2010), Kantor et al. (2010), Huber (2010), WoRMS (2011), Graf (2013), Wesselingh et al. (2019)
Adacna (s.s.)Zhadin (1965), Starobogatov et al. (2004), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Didacna (s.s.)Keen (1969)
Hypanis (Adacna)Munasypova-Motyash (2006)
HypanisKantor et al. (2010), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)

 
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