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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

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nominal species Venus meretrix Gmelin, 1791

Gmelin, 1791, Syst. Nat. 1(6): 3273, var. B.
(misidentified reference to Venus meretrix Linnaeus, 1758)

= Galatea paradoxa

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Egeria paradoxa (Born, 1780) — Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

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