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

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genus Limnoperna Rochebrune, 1881: synonymy
     6 Recent valid species (6 total species)

Limnoperna Rochebrune, 1881
Rochebrune, 1881. Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris 6: 102.
Type species: Dreissena siamensis Morelet, 1866 = Limnoperna siamensis

Limnoperma Kil, 1976
Kil, 1976. Korean J. Limnol. 9(3-4): 29, Table 1.
(error for Limnoperna Rochebrune, 1881)
Type species: Dreissena siamensis Morelet, 1866 = Limnoperna siamensis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Limnoperna — Brandt (1974), Dang et al. (1980), Ricciardi (1998), Kimura et al. (1999), Simone (2006), ... Ng et al. (2020), Jihad (2023), Torres et al. (2024), Wang et al. (2024), FMCS (2025)
Limnoperma [sic] — Kil (1976)

 
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