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Bivalvia | Cardiida | Tellinoidea | Semelidae

genus Abra Lamarck, 1818: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)

Synonymy

Abra Lamarck, 1818

‘Leach’ Lamarck, 1818. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 5: 492.
Type species: Mactra tenuis Montagu, 1803 = Abra tenuis

Syndosmya Récluz, 1843

Récluz, 1843. unknown publication: ??.

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Abra, since 1900.

Abra — Zhadin (1965), Giribet & Wheeler (2002), WoRMS (2011), Bieler et al. (2014), Vinarski & Kantor (2016), Combosch et al. (2017), Wesselingh et al. (2019)

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