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Margarita Leach, 1814
512303 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:512303)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Genus
Margarita sinensis Leach, 1814 accepted as Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by monotypy)
- Species Margarita crocata Swainson, 1831 accepted as Pinctada crocata (Swainson, 1831)
- Species Margarita sinensis Leach, 1814 accepted as Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Margarita watereensis I. Lea, 1836 accepted as Elliptio raveneli (Conrad, 1834) accepted as Elliptio icterina (Conrad, 1834)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Leach, W. E. (1814-1817). Zoological miscellany: being descriptions of new or interesting animals. <em>London.</em> Vol. 1</i> [1814]. Vol. 2 [1815], Vol. 3 [1817]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/91180
page(s): 1: 107 [details]
page(s): 1: 107 [details]
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Leach, W. E. (1814-1817). Zoological miscellany: being descriptions of new or interesting animals. <em>London.</em> Vol. 1</i> [1814]. Vol. 2 [1815], Vol. 3 [1817]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/91180
page(s): 1: 107 [details]
source of synonymy Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/books/6177
page(s): 181 [details]
page(s): 1: 107 [details]
source of synonymy Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/books/6177
page(s): 181 [details]
