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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacridiscus Dall, 1902 
AphiaID: 526356

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 editorImparidentia (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVenerida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVeneroidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVeneridae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacridiscus (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDonax aequilatera G. B. Sowerby I, 1825 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacridiscus aequilatera (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825) (type by original designation)
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVeneridae Rafinesque, 1815
Sources  original description Dall, W. H. (1902). Synopsis of the family Veneridae and of the North American recent species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 26: 335-412., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7612547
page(s): 359 [details]

status source Kong L.-f., Matsukuma A., Hayashi I., Takada Y. & Li Q. (2010) Taxonomy of Macridiscus species (Bivalvia: Veneridae) from the Western Pacific: insights based on morphological and molecular evidences. Venus 69(1-2): 88-89 [Abstract only]. [details]

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[sort alpha..]		 Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacridiscus aequilatera (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacridiscus donacinus (Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacridiscus multifarius L. F. Kong, Matsukuma & Lutaenko, 2012

Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacridiscus melanaegis (Römer, 1860) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacridiscus aequilatera (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacridiscus semicancellatus (Koch in Philippi, 1843) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMacridiscus donacinus (Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811)
Link Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank  
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:526356
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2010-09-21 11:15:08Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2011-01-17 19:55:44Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2011). Macridiscus Dall, 1902. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=526356 on 2017-08-22
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