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

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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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