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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!

For each valid genus, the nominal generic synonyms are listed. The taxonomic history (since 1900) at the bottom of the page lists the genera to which all of the currently included species have been classified.

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genus Cerastoderma Poli, 1795: nominal genera
3 valid species

Cerastes Poli, 1795
Poli, 1795, Testacea Utriusque Siciliae 2: ??.

Cerastoderma Poli, 1795
Poli, 1795, Testacea Utriusque Siciliae 2: 252, 258.
Type species: Cardium edule Linnaeus, 1758 (sub. desig. by Martens, 1870: __) = Cerastoderma edule

Edulicardium Monterosato, 1923
Monterosato, 1923, unknown publication: ??.

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Cardium — Zhadin (1965), Slugina (2006)
Cerastoderma — Keen (1969), Huber (2010), Vinarski & Kantor (2016), Wesselingh et al. (2019), Kondakov et al. (2020)

Page updated: 14:54:40 Wed 04 Dec 2024

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