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

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genus Amusium Röding, 1798: synonymy
     1 Recent valid species (1 total species)

Amusium Röding, 1798
Rumphius, 1711. Thesaurus imaginum piscium testaceorum : pl. 45, figs. A-B. [pre-linnaean]
Klein, 1753. Tent. Method. Ostrac., etc.: 134. [pre-linnaean]
Röding, 1798. Museum Boltenianum: 165.
(renamed Amussium Herrmannsen, 1846)
Type species: Ostrea pleuronectes Linnaeus, 1758 = Amusium pleuronectes

Amussium Herrmannsen, 1846
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: 47.
(new name for Amusium Röding, 1798)
Type species: Ostrea pleuronectes Linnaeus, 1758 = Amusium pleuronectes

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

 
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