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Synek Barrande, 1881 †
1792690 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1792690)
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Genus
Synek antiquus Barrande, 1881 † (type by original designation)
- Species Synek antiquus Barrande, 1881 †
- Species Synek nasutus Barrande, 1881 † (uncertain > unassessed)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
masculine
Barrande J. (1881). <i>Systême silurien du centre de la Bohême. Première partie: Recherches paléontologiques, vol. 6. Classe des Mollusques. Ordre des Acéphalés</i>. Prague: Published by the author. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14947496
page(s): 162, caption to pl. 275 [details]
page(s): 162, caption to pl. 275 [details]
Nomenclature "Filius" is given in the heading as an apparently alternative name, but is only the Latin etymology of Synek, a name formed...
Nomenclature "Filius" is given in the heading as an apparently alternative name, but is only the Latin etymology of Synek, a name formed from a Czech word. However, Filius has its own entry in Neave (1939, Nomenclator Zoologicus, 2: 407). [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Synek Barrande, 1881 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1792690 on 2025-04-23
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Barrande J. (1881). <i>Systême silurien du centre de la Bohême. Première partie: Recherches paléontologiques, vol. 6. Classe des Mollusques. Ordre des Acéphalés</i>. Prague: Published by the author. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14947496
page(s): 162, caption to pl. 275 [details]
additional source Polechová, M. (2022). The bivalve fauna from the Letná Formation (Upper Ordovician) of Bohemia: Significance for palaeobiogeography, palaeoecology and diversification of bivalves. <em>Geobios.</em> 70: 55-73., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2021.10.002
page(s): 60 [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy Steinová, M. (2012). Probable ancestral type of actinodont hinge in the Ordovician bivalve <i>Pseudocyrtodonta</i> Pfab, 1934. <em>Bulletin of Geosciences.</em> 87(2): 333-346., available online at https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1330
page(s): 336; note: of Pseudocyrtodonta; synonymy not explicity stated but implied by synonymizing the type species [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 162, caption to pl. 275 [details]
additional source Polechová, M. (2022). The bivalve fauna from the Letná Formation (Upper Ordovician) of Bohemia: Significance for palaeobiogeography, palaeoecology and diversification of bivalves. <em>Geobios.</em> 70: 55-73., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2021.10.002
page(s): 60 [details] Available for editors

source of synonymy Steinová, M. (2012). Probable ancestral type of actinodont hinge in the Ordovician bivalve <i>Pseudocyrtodonta</i> Pfab, 1934. <em>Bulletin of Geosciences.</em> 87(2): 333-346., available online at https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1330
page(s): 336; note: of Pseudocyrtodonta; synonymy not explicity stated but implied by synonymizing the type species [details] Available for editors

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Nomenclature "Filius" is given in the heading as an apparently alternative name, but is only the Latin etymology of Synek, a name formed from a Czech word. However, Filius has its own entry in Neave (1939, Nomenclator Zoologicus, 2: 407). [details]