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

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species Monocondylaea guarayana (d’Orbigny, 1835): synonymy
     20 specimens

Unio (Monocondylaea) guarayana d’Orbigny, 1835
d’Orbigny, 1835. Mag. Zool. 5(61-62): 38.
d’Orbigny, 1846. Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale 5(3): 614, pl. 68, figs. 4-7 [as ‘Monocondylaea guarayana’].
Type(s): LECTOTYPE BMNH_54-9-4-17, Rio San Miguel, Guarayos, Bolivia.

Monocondylæa guarayanaSimpson (1900)
Monocondylaea guarayanaSimpson (1914), Haas (1931), Haas (1969), Quintana (1982), Pereira et al. (2014), Mansur et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Monocondylaea paraguayanaSimone (2006)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Monocondylæa guarayanaSimpson (1900)
Monocondylaea guarayanaSimpson (1914), Haas (1931), Haas (1969), Quintana (1982), Pereira et al. (2014), Mansur et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Monocondylaea paraguayanaSimone (2006)

 
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