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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenidae genus Villorita Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833: synonymy
3 Recent valid species (3 total species) Villorita Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833
Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833. [in] Cuvier, Animal Kingdom 12(38): pl. 31, fig. 5.
Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834. [in] Cuvier, Animal Kingdom 12(39-40): 601.
Type species: Cyrena cyprinoides Gray, 1825 (monotypy) = Villorita cyprinoides Velorita Gray, 1840
Gray, 1840. Synopt. Cont. Brit. Mus. 42nd ed.: 149.
Gray, 1842. Synopt. Cont. Brit. Mus. 44th ed.: 75.
Gray, 1847. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 15: 184.
(error for Villorita Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) Taxonomic History (since 1900)Villorita — Dall (1903), Thiele (1934), Subba Rao (1989), Nazneen & Begum (1994), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012), OBIS (2012), Wu et al. (2023)
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