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

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Bivalvia | Cardioida | Tellinoidea | Donacidae

genus Iphigenia Schumacher, 1817: synonymy
     4 Recent valid species (4 total species)

Iphigenia Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1817. Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 155.
Type species: Donax laevigata Gmelin, 1791 (monotypy) = Iphigenia laevigata

Capsa Lamarck, 1818
Humphrey, 1797. Mus. Col.: 59.
Lamarck, 1818. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 5: 553.
(renamed Procos Gistl, 1848)

Procos Gistl, 1848
Gistl, 1848. Naturgesch. Thierreich Höhere Schulen: 172.
(new name for Capsa Lamarck, 1818)
Type species: Donax laevigata Gmelin, 1791 = Iphigenia laevigata

Donacina Férussac, 1821
Férussac, 1821. Prodr.: ??.

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

IphigeniaDall & Simpson (1901), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Olsson (1961), Keen (1971), Daget (1998), Ramírez et al. (2003), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2010), Huber (2010), WoRMS (2011), Graf (2013), Kondakov et al. (2020)
Iphigenia (s.s.)Thiele (1934)

 
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