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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Myoida | Dreissenoidea | Dreissenidae genus Mytilopsis Conrad, 1857: synonymy
5 Recent valid species (8 total species) Mytilopsis Conrad, 1857
Conrad, 1857. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 9: 167.
Type species: Mytilus leucophaeatus Conrad, 1831 (monotypy) = Mytilopsis leucophaeata Praxis Adams & Adams, 1857
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 522.
(homonym of Guenée, 1852 [Lepid.]; intro'd as sub-gen. of Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
Type species: Dreissena africana Van Beneden, 1835 (sub. desig. by Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 455) = Mytilopsis africana Andrusoviconcha Starobogatov, 1970
Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 83.
Type species: Congeria modiolopsis Andrusov, 1897 (orig. desig.) = Mytilopsis modiolopsis Mytiloides Conrad, 1874
Conrad, 1874. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 26: 29.
(error for Mytilopsis Conrad, 1857) Mylitoides Conrad, 1874
Conrad, 1874. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 26: 83.
(error for Mytilopsis Conrad, 1857) Taxonomic History (since 1900)Mytilopsis — Pilsbry (1911), Morrison (1946), Olsson (1961), Keen (1971), Marelli & Gray (1985), ... Kondakov et al. (2020), Ituarte (2020), Príe et al. (2021), Breure et al. (2022), Czaja et al. (2023)
Congeria — Pilsbry (1911), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Mansur et al. (2019)
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