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

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species Lucinoma borealis (Linnaeus, 1767): synonymy
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Venus borealis Linnaeus, 1767
Lister, 1678. Hist. Anim. Anglic.: 174, pl. 4, figs. 23.
Linnaeus, 1767. Syst. Nat. 1(2): 1134.

Lucinoma borealisCombosch et al. (2017)

Venus borealis Gmelin, 1791
Lister, 1678. Hist. Anim. Anglic.: 174, pl. 4, figs. 23 [as ‘123’].
Martini & Chemnitz, 1784. Conch. Cab. 7: pl. 39, figs. 412-414.
Gmelin, 1791. Syst. Nat. 1(6): 3285.
(homonym of Venus borealis Linnaeus, 1767)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lucinoma borealisCombosch et al. (2017)

 
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