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Taxonomy
Mactra darwinii was named by Sowerby (1846) [DISTRIBUTION: Cenozoic; Argentina. TYPE SPECIMEN: based on first syntype.]. Its type specimen is NHM-L27977, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. alta, M. angulata, M. araucana, M. asymmetrica, M. bulgarica, M. caspia, M. chinensis, M. chipolana, M. cinerea, M. coalingenesis, M. conradana, M. corallina, M. corallina, M. darwini, M. defossa, M. dernbergi, M. discors, M. eichwaldi, M. fabreana, M. garreti, M. gaultina, M. glabrata, M. indistincta, M. inornata, M. insulaemaris, M. iridia, M. kavakamiensis, M. luscata, M. luzonica, M. maculosa, M. matthewi, M. naviculata, M. orbiculata, M. pallasii, M. parilis, M. pittsburgensis, M. plana, M. podolica, M. pura, M. quadrata, M. ramonensis, M. rosea, M. splendidula, M. steinmanni, M. sulcataria, M. superstes, M. valangiensis, M. veneriformis, M. vitaliana, M. vitaliana, M. denburgi, M. caspia, M. cuvieri, M. basteroti, M. chatina, M. sulcataria, M. semiplicata, M. fragilis, M. cymata, M. undula, M. mula, M. sulcataria, M. macescens, M. maracaibensis, M. undula, M. eichwaldi, M. asperaeformis, M. polynyma, M. snatolensis, M. xenophonti
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1846 | Mactra darwinii Sowerby p. 249 figs. pl. 2, fig. 9 |
| 2008 | Mactra darwinii Griffin and Nielsen p. 16 |
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†Mactra darwinii Sowerby 1846
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available