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Trigonia vau Sharpe, 1856 †
883087 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:883087)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Sharpe, D. (1856). Description of fossils from the secondary rocks of Sunday River and Zwartkop River, South Africa, collected by Dr. Atherstone and A. G. Bain, Esq. <em>Transactions of the Geological Society of London, 2nd series.</em> 7: 193-215., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36198333
page(s): 194, pl. 22, fig. 5 [details]
page(s): 194, pl. 22, fig. 5 [details]
Type locality contained in KwaZulu-Natal
type locality contained in KwaZulu-Natal [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Trigonia vau Sharpe, 1856 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=883087 on 2025-09-12
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Sharpe, D. (1856). Description of fossils from the secondary rocks of Sunday River and Zwartkop River, South Africa, collected by Dr. Atherstone and A. G. Bain, Esq. <em>Transactions of the Geological Society of London, 2nd series.</em> 7: 193-215., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36198333
page(s): 194, pl. 22, fig. 5 [details]
basis of record Cooper, M. R. (2015). On the Iotrigoniidae (Bivalvia: Trigoniida); their palaeobiogeography, evolution and classification. <em>Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen.</em> 277(1): 49-62., available online at https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2015/0495 [details]
page(s): 194, pl. 22, fig. 5 [details]
basis of record Cooper, M. R. (2015). On the Iotrigoniidae (Bivalvia: Trigoniida); their palaeobiogeography, evolution and classification. <em>Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen.</em> 277(1): 49-62., available online at https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2015/0495 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
