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Taxonomy
Mya arenaria was named by Linnaeus (1758) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Pliocene-Recent; Arctic Ocean-Florida.]. It is extant.
It was recombined as Mya (Arenomya) arenaria by MacNeil (1965), Abbott (1974) and Kafanov et al. (2001).
It was recombined as Mya (Arenomya) arenaria by MacNeil (1965), Abbott (1974) and Kafanov et al. (2001).
Subspecies
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1758 | Mya arenaria Linnaeus p. 670 |
1857 | Mya japonica Jay p. 292 |
1860 | Mya arenaria Holmes p. 55 |
1940 | Mya arenaria Hatai p. 162 |
1942 | Mya arenaria japonica Weaver p. 253 |
1943 | Mya arenaria Gardner p. 138 |
1957 | Mya japonica Fujie p. 406 |
1965 | Mya (Arenomya) japonica MacNeil p. 31 |
1965 | Mya (Arenomya) arenaria MacNeil p. 33 |
1974 | Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Abbott p. 536 |
2001 | Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Kafanov et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758
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†Mya japonica oonogai Makiyama 1934
Invalid names: Mya japonica Jay 1857 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available