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genus Carbonicola McCoy, 1855: synonymy
0 Recent valid species (4 total species)

Carbonicola McCoy, 1855
McCoy, 1855. [in] Sedgwick & McCoy, eds., Synop. Class. Brit. Paleoz. Rocks (2): 71.
Type species: Unio acutus Sowerby, 1821 (sub. desig. by Davies & Trueman, 1927) = Carbonicola acuta

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Carbonicola — Henderson (1935), Weir (1969)

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