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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorApolymetis Salisbury, 1929 
AphiaID: 225478

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBivalvia (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeterodonta (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuheterodonta (Infraclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVeneroida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTellinoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTellinidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacominae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTellina meyeri Philippi, 1846 (type by typification of replaced name)
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacominae Olsson, 1961
Synonymised
taxa		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMetis H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856 (junior homonym of Metis Philippi, 1843)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolymetis Salisbury, 1929 (junior homonym of Polymetis Walsingham, 1908)
Sources  basis of record Keen A.M. 1969. Superfamily Tellinacea. Pp. N613-N643, In R.C. Moore (ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part N: Mollusca 6, Bivalvia. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.
page(s): N625 [details]

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[show all]		 Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorApolymetis meyeri (Philippi, 1846)

Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorApolymetis angulata (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPsammotreta angulata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorApolymetis asthenodon Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPsammotreta asthenodon (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorApolymetis clarki Durham, 1950 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPsammotreta cognata (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1902)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorApolymetis edentula (Spengler, 1798) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPsammotreta edentula (Spengler, 1798)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorApolymetis ephippium (Spengler, 1798) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLeporimetis ephippium (Spengler, 1798)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorApolymetis lacunosa (Dillwyn, 1817) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPsammotreta papyracea (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorApolymetis orbicularis (G. B. Sowerby III, 1889) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLeporimetis orbicularis (G. B. Sowerby III, 1889)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorApolymetis papyracea (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPsammotreta papyracea (Gmelin, 1791)
Environment marine
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:225478
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-03-22 07:45:12Z  created  Nsiangango, Silvi Edith
2013-01-09 10:55:50Z  checked  Sartori, André F.
2013-04-05 17:40:15Z  changed  Sartori, André F.
2014-01-21 09:09:29Z  changed  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S.; Sartori, A. (2014). Apolymetis Salisbury, 1929. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225478 on 2014-03-09
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