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

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Bivalvia | Adapedonta | Solenoidea | Pharidae | Pharellinae

genus Novaculina Benson, 1830: synonymy
     5 Recent valid species (5 total species)

Novaculina Benson, 1830
Benson, 1830. Glean. Sci. 2: 63.
Type species: Novaculina gangetica Benson, 1830 (monotypy) = Novaculina gangetica

Loncosilla Rafinesque, 1831
Rafinesque, 1831. Continuation: 7.
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 84.
Type species: Loncosilla solenoides Rafinesque, 1831 (monotypy) = Novaculina gangetica

Leucosilla Scudder, 1882
‘Rafinesque’ of Authors.
Scudder, 1882. Nomen. Zool., Suppl.: 187. [nomen nudum]
Cox et al., 1969. Treatise on Invert. Paleo 2: N862.
Williams et al., 2008. Freshw. Mussels AL and Mobile Basin: 102.
(error for Loncosilla Rafinesque, 1831)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

NovaculinaGhosh (1920), Brandt (1974), Subba Rao (1989), Nesemann et al. (2003), Nesemann et al. (2007), ... Bolotov et al. (2018), Kondakov et al. (2020), Ng et al. (2020), Win et al. (2021), Bolotov et al. (2022)

 
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