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Publication Araujo et al. (2009): summary
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Complete Citation

Araujo, R., C. Toledo, D. Van Damme, M. Ghamizi & A. Machordom. 2009. Margaritifera marocana (Pallary, 1918): a valid species inhabiting Moroccan rivers. Journal of Molluscan Studies 75(2): 95-101. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Margaritifera laevis Huff et al., 2004
‘Haas’ of Authors.
Huff et al., 2004. J. Moll. Studies 70: 381.
Walker et al., 2006. Malacologia 48(1-2): 271.
Araujo et al., 2009. J. Moll. Studies 75(2): 97. [in part]
Takeuchi et al., 2015. Mollusc. Res. 35(4): 220. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Ptychorhynchus laevis Haas, 1910)

Taxonomic Opinions

Cumberlandia monodonta (Say, 1829)

Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler, 1793) = Pseudunio auricularius

Margaritifera dahurica (Middendorff, 1850)

Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850)

Margaritifera hembeli (Conrad, 1838)

Margaritifera laevis (Haas, 1910)

Margaritifera laosensis (Lea, 1863) = Gibbosula laosensis

Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

Margaritifera marocana (Pallary, 1918) = Pseudunio marocanus
+ Margaritana redomica Pallary, 1923
+ Margaritana dernaica Pallary, 1928

Margaritifera marrianae Johnson, 1983

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