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Taxonomy
Myrtea was named by Turton (1822) [Sepkoski's age data: K Sant R]. It is extant. Its type is Myrtea spinifera.
It was reranked as Phacoides (Myrtea) by Dickerson (1916); it was reranked as Lucina (Myrtea) by Grant and Gale (1931), Durham (1944) and Faustman (1964); it was misspelled as Myrtaea by Olsson (1931), Cox et al. (1969), Vokes (1980), Tashiro and Kozai (1982), Dockery (1982), Moore (1988), Beu et al. (1990), Lamprell and Whitehead (1992), Sepkoski (2002) and Bouchet et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Phacoides by Dickerson (1916); to Lucina by Grant and Gale (1931), Durham (1944) and Faustman (1964); to Lucininae by Dockery (1982); to Lucinidae by Olsson (1931), Tashiro and Kozai (1982), Beu et al. (1990) and Lamprell and Whitehead (1992); to Veneroida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Myrteinae by Cox et al. (1969), Vokes (1980), Moore (1988) and Bouchet et al. (2010).
It was reranked as Phacoides (Myrtea) by Dickerson (1916); it was reranked as Lucina (Myrtea) by Grant and Gale (1931), Durham (1944) and Faustman (1964); it was misspelled as Myrtaea by Olsson (1931), Cox et al. (1969), Vokes (1980), Tashiro and Kozai (1982), Dockery (1982), Moore (1988), Beu et al. (1990), Lamprell and Whitehead (1992), Sepkoski (2002) and Bouchet et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Phacoides by Dickerson (1916); to Lucina by Grant and Gale (1931), Durham (1944) and Faustman (1964); to Lucininae by Dockery (1982); to Lucinidae by Olsson (1931), Tashiro and Kozai (1982), Beu et al. (1990) and Lamprell and Whitehead (1992); to Veneroida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Myrteinae by Cox et al. (1969), Vokes (1980), Moore (1988) and Bouchet et al. (2010).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1822 | Myrtea Turton p. 133 |
| 1916 | Phacoides (Myrtea) Dickerson p. 485 |
| 1931 | Lucina (Myrtea) Grant and Gale p. 288 |
| 1931 | Myrtaea Olsson p. 50 |
| 1944 | Lucina (Myrtea) Durham p. 144 |
| 1964 | Lucina (Myrtea) Faustman p. 119 |
| 1969 | Myrtea Cox et al. p. 499 |
| 1980 | Myrtea Vokes p. 103 |
| 1982 | Myrtea Dockery p. 58 |
| 1982 | Myrtea Tashiro and Kozai p. 83 |
| 1988 | Myrtea Moore p. D16 |
| 1990 | Myrtea Beu et al. p. 396 |
| 1992 | Myrtea Lamprell and Whitehead p. 46 |
| 2002 | Myrtea Sepkoski |
| 2010 | Myrtea Bouchet et al. |
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G. Myrtea Turton 1822
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†Myrtaea asphaltica Cooke 1919
†Myrtaea cookei Olsson 1931
Subg. Myrtea (Myrtea) Turton 1822
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†Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta Conrad 1865
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Invalid names: Lucina uhleri Clark 1895 [synonym], Lucina ulrichi Harris 1897 [synonym]
†Myrtaea (Myrtaea) enischna Woodring 1982
†Myrtaea (Myrtaea) limoniana Dall 1903
†Myrtea (Myrtea) scopularis Casey 1903
Myrtea (Myrtea) taffana Dickerson 1916
†Myrtea (Myrtea) taylorensis Mansfield 1940
†Myrtea (Myrtea) vicksburgensis Casey 1903
†Myrtea ezoensis Nagao 1957
Myrtea spinifera Montagu 1803
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available