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Rangia Desmoulins, 1832 
AphiaID: 156990

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Mactroidea (Superfamily) > Mactridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Rangia cyrenoides Des Moulins, 1832 (type by monotypy)
Parent Mactridae Lamarck, 1809
Synonymised
taxa
  Gnathodon G. B. Sowerby I, 1832 (synonym)
Rangia (Rangia) Desmoulins, 1832
Rangia (Rangianella) Conrad, 1868
Sources  additional source: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details]

from synonym: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.  [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Rangia cuneata (Sowerby I, 1832)
Species Rangia flexuosa (Conrad, 1839)
Species Rangia mendica (Gould, 1851)

Subgenus Rangia (Rangia) Desmoulins, 1832 represented as Rangia Desmoulins, 1832 (alternate representation)
Subgenus Rangia (Rangianella) Conrad, 1868 represented as Rangia Desmoulins, 1832 (alternate representation)

Species Rangia cyrenoides Des Moulins, 1832 accepted as Rangia cuneata (Sowerby I, 1832)
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156990
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Date   action   by
2005-05-20 11:54:45Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2012-03-23 23:27:01Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Rangia Desmoulins, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156990 on 2013-05-20
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