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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

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genus Rangia Des Moulins, 1832: synonymy
     3 Recent valid species (3 total species)

Gnathodon Sowerby, 1832
Gray in Sowerby, 1832. Genera of Shells: ??.
(homonym of Oken, 1816 (Pisces))

Rangia Des Moulins, 1832
Des Moulins, 1832. Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux 5: 50.

Rangianella Conrad, 1868
Conrad, 1868. Amer. J. Conch. 3: 30.

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

RangiaAnonymous (2008), WoRMS (2011), Bieler et al. (2014), Combosch et al. (2017), Soroka et al. (2018), Geda et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2025)

 
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