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Unionites fassaensis

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae

Taxonomy
Myacites fassaensis was named by Wissmann (1841).

It was recombined as Anodontophora fassaensis by Bittner (1889), Bittner (1899), Hsu (1937) and Newell and Kummel (1942); it was recombined as Anoplophora fassaensis by Frech (1907); it was recombined as Anodontophora (Myacites) fassaensis by Ogilvie Gordon (1927); it was recombined as Unionites fassaensis by Ciriacks (1963), Nakazawa (1971), Chen et al. (1974), Gu et al. (1976), Chen (1982), Neri and Posenato (1985), Dagis et al. (1996), Kumagae and Nakazawa (2009), Hofmann and Hautmann (2013), Hofmann et al. (2013), Hautmann et al. (2013), Pan et al. (2014) and Hofmann et al. (2015).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1841Myacites fassaensis Wissmann p. 9 figs. Pl 16, fig 2
1889Anodontophora fassaensis Bittner
1899Anodontophora fassaensis Bittner
1907Anoplophora fassaensis Frech
1927Anodontophora (Myacites) fassaensis Ogilvie Gordon
1937Anodontophora fassaensis Hsu p. 317 figs. Pl 1, figs 15,16
1942Anodontophora fassaensis Newell and Kummel
1963Unionites fassaensis Ciriacks p. 82 figs. Pl 16, fig 13
1971Unionites fassaensis Nakazawa p. 127 figs. Pl 25, figs 1-4
1974Unionites fassaensis Chen et al. p. 326 figs. Pl 174, figs 2,3,7
1976Unionites fassaensis Gu et al. p. 52 figs. Pl 22, figs 1-3
1982Unionites fassaensis Chen p. 218 figs. Pl 2, fig 16
1985Unionites fassaensis Neri and Posenato p. 94
1996Unionites fassaensis Dagis et al. p. 68 figs. Pl 4, figs 20,21
2009Unionites fassaensis Kumagae and Nakazawa p. 167 figs. 145.5-145.9
2013Unionites fassaensis Hautmann et al. p. 281 figs. 7L-O
2013Unionites fassaensis Hofmann and Hautmann p. 567 fig. 13C,D
2014Unionites fassaensis Pan et al. p. 151 fig. 5G,H
2015Unionites fassaensis Hofmann et al. fig. 4K

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassHeteroconchia(Gray 1854)
RankNameAuthor
CardiomorphiFerussac 1822
CardioniFerussac 1822
CardiidiaFerussac 1822
CardiataFerussac 1822
superorderCardiiformiiFerussac 1822
orderCardiidaFerussac 1822
suborderAnthracosiidinaSilantiev and Carter 2011
superfamilyAnthracosioidea(Amalizky 1892)
familyAnthracosiidaeAmalizky 1892
genusUnionitesWissman 1841
speciesfassaensis()

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.

Unionites fassaensis Wissmann 1841
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available