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

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The synonymy list the nominal family-group level taxa circumscribed within the valid taxon.

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Bivalvia | Myoida | Dreissenoidea

family DREISSENIDAE Gray, 1840: nominal family-group taxa
     8 genera

DREISSENIDAE Gray, 1840
Gray, 1840, Land Freshw. Brit. Turton: 299.
Type genus: Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835 = Dreissena

ENOCEPHALIDAE stefani, 1880
stefani, 1880, unknown publication: ??.
Type genus: Enocephalus Münster, 1831 = Congeria

TICHOGONIIDAE Andrusov, 1893
Andrusov, 1893, unknown publication: ??.
Type genus: Tichogonia Rossmässler, 1835 = Dreissena

DREISSENOMYIDAE Babak, 1983
Babak, 1983, Trudy Paleont. Instit. 204: 18, 59.
Type genus: Dreissenomya Fuchs, 1870 = Dreissenomya

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