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

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Publication Nuttall (1990): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Nuttall, C.P. 1990. Review of the Caenozoic heterodont bivalve superfamily Dreissenacea. Palaeontology 33(3): 707-737. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Taxonomic Opinions

Congeria rhomboidea M. Hörnes

Congeria subglobosa Partsch

Dreissena (Modiolodreissena) theodori Andrusov (1893)

Dreissena (Pontodreissena) rostriformis Deshayes, 1838 = Dreissena rostriformis

Dreissena (s.s.) polymorpha (Pallas) = Dreissena polymorpha

Dreissenomya (s.s.) schroeckingeri (Fuchs, 1870) = Dreissenomya schroeckingeri

Dreissenomya (Sinucongeria) aperta (Deshayes, 1838)

Dreissenomya (Sinucongeria) arcuata (Fuchs) = Sinucongeria arcuata

Mytilopsis africanus (Van Beneden, 1835) = Mytilopsis africana

Mytilopsis amygdaloides (Dunker, 1848)

Mytilopsis basteroti (Deshayes, 1836)

Mytilopsis chonioides (Cossmann)

Mytilopsis curvirostris (Cossmann)

Mytilopsis eocenica (Oppenheim, 1891)

Mytilopsis leucophaetus [sic] (Conrad, 1831) = Mytilopsis leucophaeata

Mytilopsis modiolopsis (Andrusov, 1897)

Mytilopsis sallei (Recluz, 1849)

Mytilopsis scripta (Conrad, 1874)

Mytilopsis sowerbyi d’Orbigny (1850)

Mytilopsis spathulata (Partsch)

Mytilopsis triangularis (Partsch)

Prodreissensia euchroma (Oppenheim, 1891)

Prodreissensia perrandoi Rovereto