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Dreissena fragilis O. Boettger, 1878 †
1502122 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1502122)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
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fossil only
Boettger, O. (1878). Die Tertiärfauna von Pebas am oberen Marañon. <em>Jahrbuch der k. k. geologischen Reichsanstalt.</em> 28: 485-540., available online at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/JbGeolReichsanst_028_0485-0504.pdf
page(s): 497, pl. 13, fig 16-18 [details]
page(s): 497, pl. 13, fig 16-18 [details]
Note "Pebas [...] In unmittelbarer Nähe des...
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Type locality "Pebas [...] In unmittelbarer Nähe des Dorfes, an einer Stelle, bis zu der das Wasser dann und wann wohl steigen möge, fanden sich die Conchylien in einem sandigen, etwas eisenschüssigen, gelblichen, stellenweise auch mehr homogenen bläulichen Thonboden" [Pebas, in the immediate vicinity of the village, at a point up to which the water might now and then rise, the shells were found in a sandy, somewhat iron-shed, yellowish, sometimes more homogeneous bluish clay soil], Peru [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Dreissena fragilis O. Boettger, 1878 †. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1502122 on 2025-09-11
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Boettger, O. (1878). Die Tertiärfauna von Pebas am oberen Marañon. <em>Jahrbuch der k. k. geologischen Reichsanstalt.</em> 28: 485-540., available online at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/JbGeolReichsanst_028_0485-0504.pdf
page(s): 497, pl. 13, fig 16-18 [details]
source of synonymy Wesselingh, F.P. (2006). Molluscs from the Miocene Pebas Formation of Peruvian and Colombian Amazonia. <em>Scripta Geologica.</em> 133: 19-290., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/41346
page(s): 227, 229 [details]
page(s): 497, pl. 13, fig 16-18 [details]
source of synonymy Wesselingh, F.P. (2006). Molluscs from the Miocene Pebas Formation of Peruvian and Colombian Amazonia. <em>Scripta Geologica.</em> 133: 19-290., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/41346
page(s): 227, 229 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Synonymy Wesselingh (2006) considered the species a partial synonym of Mytilopsis scripta and M. sallei; since no type is designated, the synonymy is unresolved. [details]Type locality "Pebas [...] In unmittelbarer Nähe des Dorfes, an einer Stelle, bis zu der das Wasser dann und wann wohl steigen möge, fanden sich die Conchylien in einem sandigen, etwas eisenschüssigen, gelblichen, stellenweise auch mehr homogenen bläulichen Thonboden" [Pebas, in the immediate vicinity of the village, at a point up to which the water might now and then rise, the shells were found in a sandy, somewhat iron-shed, yellowish, sometimes more homogeneous bluish clay soil], Peru [details]
