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Amusium pleuronectes
Taxonomy
Ostrea pleuronectes was named by Linnaeus (1758) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene-Recent; Eastern Pacific-Indo-Pacific.]. It is extant. It is the type species of Amussium, Pleuronectes.
It was recombined as Pleuronectes pleuronectes by Bronn (1832); it was recombined as Pecten (Amusium) pleuronectes by Grant and IV and Gale (1931); it was recombined as Amusium pleuronectes by Oostingh (1935), Rombouts (1991), Lamprell and Whitehead (1992), Skwarko (1994), Waller (2011).
It was recombined as Pleuronectes pleuronectes by Bronn (1832); it was recombined as Pecten (Amusium) pleuronectes by Grant and IV and Gale (1931); it was recombined as Amusium pleuronectes by Oostingh (1935), Rombouts (1991), Lamprell and Whitehead (1992), Skwarko (1994), Waller (2011).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1758 | Ostrea pleuronectes Linnaeus p. 696 |
| 1832 | Pleuronectes pleuronectes Bronn |
| 1931 | Pecten (Amusium) pleuronectes Grant, IV and Gale p. 231 |
| 1935 | Amusium pleuronectes Oostingh p. 154 |
| 1991 | Amusium pleuronectes Rombouts p. 4 |
| 1992 | Amusium pleuronectes Lamprell and Whitehead p. 18 |
| 1994 | Amusium pleuronectes Skwarko p. e22 |
| 2011 | Amusium pleuronectes Waller p. 93 |
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Amusium pleuronectes Linnaeus 1758
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available