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Type Specimens
Array
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    [0] =>  Oliver, Salvi & Al-Kandari
    [1] => (Marrat
    [2] => (Strebel MS) Melvill & Standen
    [3] => (Thiele)
    [4] => [Baird, or Gray]
    [5] => [Benson] Sowerby
    [6] => [Hanley] Reeve
    [7] => Adams
    [8] => Adams & Angas
    [9] => Adams in-Montagu
    [10] => Adams, A. & Reeve
    [11] => Adams, H.
    [12] => Alder
    [13] => Alder & Hancock
    [14] => Alder in Forbes & Hanley
    [15] => Ancey
    [16] => Ancey & Sykes in Ancey
    [17] => Ancey in Bavay & Dautzenberg
    [18] => Ancey in Garrett
    [19] => Ancey in Pilsbry
    [20] => Ancey in Vignon
    [21] => Ancey in Westerlund
    [22] => Anderson
    [23] => Angas
    [24] => Anthony
    [25] => Arango
    [26] => Bartsch
    [27] => Bavay
    [28] => Bavay & Dautzenburg
    [29] => Bean
    [30] => Bean in Thorpe
    [31] => Beddome
    [32] => Benson
    [33] => Bernardi
    [34] => Biggs
    [35] => Boettger
    [36] => Bouchet & Warén
    [37] => Bourne
    [38] => Broderip
    [39] => Broderip in Broderip & Sowerby 1st
    [40] => Brown & Verdcourt
    [41] => Brown & Weil (de Boury mss.)
    [42] => Bullen
    [43] => Burch & Burch
    [44] => Burnup
    [45] => Carpenter
    [46] => Cate
    [47] => Caudwell, Jones & Killeen
    [48] => Caziot
    [49] => Chaper
    [50] => Chaster
    [51] => Chen, Linse, Copley & Rogers
    [52] => Chesney & Oliver
    [53] => Clapp
    [54] => Clench
    [55] => Clench & Aguayo
    [56] => Clench & Turner
    [57] => Clessin
    [58] => Clover
    [59] => Coles & Nekola
    [60] => Collier
    [61] => Connolly
    [62] => Cooper & Preston
    [63] => Craven
    [64] => Crosse
    [65] => Crosse & Fischer
    [66] => Crosse & Fisher
    [67] => Crowley
    [68] => Crowley & Pain
    [69] => Crowley, Pain & Woodward
    [70] => Dall
    [71] => Dance
    [72] => Dance, Moolenbeek & Dekker
    [73] => Dautzenberg
    [74] => de boury
    [75] => de Folin
    [76] => de Mattia & Neiber
    [77] => de Mattia, Neiber & Groh
    [78] => Dean
    [79] => Dekker & Goud
    [80] => Dekker, Moolenbeek & Dance
    [81] => Deschamps
    [82] => Dillwyn
    [83] => Drouet & Chaper
    [84] => Dunker
    [85] => Dupuis & Putzeys
    [86] => Eliot
    [87] => Engl
    [88] => F. G. Thompson & Dance
    [89] => Farran
    [90] => Forbes & Hanley
    [91] => Ford
    [92] => Fulton
    [93] => G. B. Sowerby I
    [94] => Gaskoin
    [95] => Gassies
    [96] => Germain
    [97] => Geyer
    [98] => Gittenberger
    [99] => Gittenberger & Boeters
    [100] => Gittenberger & Goud
    [101] => Glover & Taylor
    [102] => Gmelin
    [103] => Godwin-Austen
    [104] => Goodrich
    [105] => Gray
    [106] => Gray in Sowerby
    [107] => Gredler
    [108] => Gude
    [109] => Gyngell
    [110] => Haas
    [111] => Hanley
    [112] => Hanley & Theobald
    [113] => Hedley
    [114] => Hemphill in Binney
    [115] => Henderson
    [116] => Henderson & Daniels
    [117] => Henderson & Simpson
    [118] => Hervier
    [119] => Heude
    [120] => Heurde
    [121] => Higgins & Marrat
    [122] => Holyoak & Seddon
    [123] => Houart
    [124] => Hoyle
    [125] => Iredale
    [126] => Iredale in Melvill & Standen
    [127] => Issel
    [128] => J. S. Miller
    [129] => Jackson
    [130] => Jeffreys
    [131] => Jones & Preston
    [132] => Jordan
    [133] => Jordan 
    [134] => Kennard
    [135] => Kennard & Woodward
    [136] => Kiener
    [137] => Killeen & Oliver
    [138] => Killeen & Turner
    [139] => King
    [140] => Kobelt
    [141] => Lancaster
    [142] => Layard
    [143] => Layard in Kobelt
    [144] => Lea
    [145] => Linnaeus
    [146] => Lowe
    [147] => Marie
    [148] => Marrat
    [149] => Marshall
    [150] => Martyn
    [151] => Maynard
    [152] => Maynard & Clapp in Maynard
    [153] => Melvil
    [154] => Melvill
    [155] => Melvill & Ponsonby
    [156] => Melvill & Standen
    [157] => Melvill & Sykes
    [158] => Melvill in Tryon
    [159] => Möllendorff
    [160] => Montagu
    [161] => Monterosato
    [162] => Moolenbeek & Dance
    [163] => Moore
    [164] => Morelet
    [165] => Morelet & H. Drouët
    [166] => Moricand
    [167] => Morrison
    [168] => Müller
    [169] => Neubert
    [170] => Nevill, G. & H.
    [171] => Newcomb
    [172] => Noronha
    [173] => Nuttall
    [174] => Oliver
    [175] => Oliver & Abou-Zeid
    [176] => Oliver & Chesney
    [177] => Oliver & Drewery
    [178] => Oliver & Glover
    [179] => Oliver & Holmes
    [180] => Oliver & Levin
    [181] => Oliver & Lutzen
    [182] => Oliver & Picken
    [183] => Oliver & Taylor
    [184] => Oliver & Vestheim
    [185] => Oliver & Zuschin
    [186] => Oliver, Rodrigues & Cunha
    [187] => Oliver, Salvi & Al-Kandari
    [188] => Pain
    [189] => Pain & Paul
    [190] => Pallary
    [191] => Pease
    [192] => Peuile
    [193] => Pfaffer, Rowson, Tattersfield & Neubert
    [194] => Pfeiffer
    [195] => Phillips
    [196] => Pilsbry
    [197] => Pilsbry & Ferriss
    [198] => Pilsbry & Henderson
    [199] => Pilsbry & Hinkley
    [200] => Pilsbry & Hirase
    [201] => Ponder
    [202] => Powell
    [203] => Preston
    [204] => Pulteney
    [205] => Putzeys
    [206] => Ramsden
    [207] => Reeve
    [208] => Reidel & Norris
    [209] => Rodrigues, Oliver & Cunha
    [210] => Rolle
    [211] => Rowson
    [212] => Rowson & Symondson
    [213] => Rowson & Tattersfield
    [214] => Rowson & Van Goethem
    [215] => Salisbury
    [216] => Schilder
    [217] => Schlesch
    [218] => Schwabe
    [219] => Seddon
    [220] => Seddon & Aparicio
    [221] => Seddon & Killeen
    [222] => Shackleford & Spence
    [223] => Smith
    [224] => Smith, E. A.
    [225] => Smythe & Oliver
    [226] => Sowerby
    [227] => Sowerby 1st
    [228] => Sowerby 2nd
    [229] => Sowerby 2nd in Reeve
    [230] => Sowerby 3rd
    [231] => Spence
    [232] => Sterki
    [233] => Strebel
    [234] => Stutchbury
    [235] => Swainson
    [236] => Swainson in Sowerby 1st
    [237] => Sykes
    [238] => T. Brown
    [239] => Tattersfield
    [240] => Tattersfield & Rowson
    [241] => Taylor
    [242] => Taylor & Glover
    [243] => Theobald
    [244] => Thiele
    [245] => Thompson
    [246] => Tiberi
    [247] => Tomlin
    [248] => Tomlin & Peile
    [249] => Tomlin & Shackleford
    [250] => Torre
    [251] => Torre & Bartsch
    [252] => Torre & Clench
    [253] => Torre & Ramsden in Ramsden
    [254] => Turton
    [255] => van Aartsen & Carrozza
    [256] => Verdcourt
    [257] => Vermeulen
    [258] => von Cosel
    [259] => Walker
    [260] => Watson
    [261] => Westerlund
    [262] => Wheeler
    [263] => Whitehead
    [264] => Williams
    [265] => Wollaston
    [266] => Woodward
    [267] => Wright
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Acar abdita Oliver & Chesney, 1994
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Acar abdita Oliver & Chesney, 1994
Bivalvia : Arcoida : Arcoidea : Arcidae

Type Locality: Under rocks at top of shore close to sand, adjacent to Muscat Aquarium, Al Bustan, Oman, 23°33.5’N., 58°37.5’E. [Oman]

Holotype
Raeta abercrombiei Melvill, 1893
Current name: Raeta pellicula Reeve, 1854
Bivalvia : Imparidentia (Superorder) : Mactroidea : Anatinellidae

Type Locality: Bombay [India]

Syntype(s)
Barbatia (Acar) aceraea Melvill & Standen, 1899
Current name: Mulinarca aceraea (Melvill & Standen, 1899)
Bivalvia : Arcida : Arcoidea : Noetiidae

Type Locality: Torres Straits

Syntype(s)
Cardium aculeatum Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Acanthocardia aculeata Linnaeus, 1758
Bivalvia : Cardiida : Cardioidea : Cardiidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Crassatella africana Marrat, 1878
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Crassatina contraria Marrat, 1878
Bivalvia : Carditida : Crassatelloidea : Crassatellidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (missing)
Actinobolus africanus Marrat, 1878
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Cardites umbonatus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1904)
Bivalvia : Carditida : Carditoidea : Carditidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (missing)
Mytilus anatinus Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Anodonta anatina Linnaeus, 1758
Bivalvia : Unionida : Unionoidea : Unionidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Lyrocardium anaxium Oliver & Chesney, 1997
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Lyrocardium anaxium Oliver & Chesney, 1997
Bivalvia : Veneroida : Cardioidea : Cardiidae

Type Locality: East coast of Masirah, Oman, Arabian Sea. [Oman]

Holotype
Circe angasi Smith, 1885
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Gouldiopa australis Angas, 1865
Bivalvia : Veneroida : Veneroidea : Veneridae

Type Locality: Port Jackson.

Syntype(s) (possible) (lost)
Periploma angasi Crosse & Fischer, 1864
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Offadesma angasi Crosse & Fischer, 1864
Bivalvia : Thracioidea : Periplomatidae

Type Locality:

Type(s) (possible)
Neocardia angulata Sowerby, 1892
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Neocardia angulata Sowerby III, 1892
Bivalvia : Arcida : Limopsoidea : Philobryidae

Type Locality: Sow Cape (Pt. Alfred)

Syntype(s) (possible)
Tellina angulata Linnaeus, 1767
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Tellina angulata Linnaeus, 1767
Bivalvia : Veneroida : Tellinoidea : Tellinidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Amygdalum anoxicolum Oliver, 2001
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Amygdalum anoxicolum Oliver, 2001
Bivalvia : Mytiloida : Mytiloidea : Mytilidae

Type Locality: Off Ras Madrakah, southern Oman, Discovery cruise 211 st.12697#1, 19°21.8'N 58°15.4'E, 378 m [Oman]

Holotype
Thracia antarctica Melvill & Standen, 1898
Current name: Mya antarctica (Melvill & Standen, 1898)
Bivalvia : Myida : Myoidea : Myidae

Type Locality: Shallow Bay, Lively Island, Falkland Islands (from introduction) [Falkland Islands (Malvinas)]

Syntype(s) (figured)
Mya antarctica Melvill & Standen, 1914
Current name: Mya antarctica (Melvill & Standen, 1898)
Bivalvia : Myida : Myoidea : Myidae

Type Locality: N.W. Falklands [Falkland Islands (Malvinas)]

Lectotype
Arca antiquata Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Anadara antiquata Linnaeus, 1758
Bivalvia : Arcoida : Arcoidea : Arcidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Arca antiquata Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Anadara antiquata Linnaeus, 1758
Bivalvia : Arcoida : Arcoidea : Arcidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Chama antiquata Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Cardites antiquatus Linnaeus, 1758
Bivalvia : Carditida : Carditoidea : Carditidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Megaxinus arabicus Glover & Taylor, 1997
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Megaxinus arabicus Glover & Taylor, 1997
Bivalvia : Veneroida : Lucinoidea : Lucinidae

Type Locality: Arabian Sea, 19°49.43'N, 58°23.77' E, 58 m. Discovery Expedition 1994,station reference number 217:12689 11. [Oman]

Holotype
Loripes araiogramma Oliver & Chesney, 1997
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Loripes araiogramma Oliver & Chesney, 1997
Bivalvia : Veneroida : Lucinoidea : Lucinidae

Type Locality: 2km East of Marbat, Dhofar, Southern Oman. [Oman]

Holotype
Chama arcinella Linnaeus, 1767
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Arcinella arcinella Linnaeus, 1767
Bivalvia : Venerida : Chamoidea : Chamidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Mya arctica Linnaeus, 1767
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Hiatella arctica Linnaeus, 1767
Bivalvia : Adapedonta : Hiatelloidea : Hiatellidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Cardium arcuatum Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Lucinella divaricata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Bivalvia : Imparidentia (Superorder) : Lucinoidea : Lucinidae

Type Locality: Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Mya arenaria Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Mya arenaria Linnaeus, 1758
Bivalvia : Myida : Myoidea : Myidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Thracia arienatoma Oliver & Holmes, 2004
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Thracia arienatoma Oliver & Holmes, 2004
Bivalvia : Pholadomyoida : Pandoroidea : Thraciidae

Type Locality: Gravier, Rodrigues, stn 9A, 14.11.2000, 19°43.9’S, 63°28.9’E [Republic of Mauritius]

Holotype
Malvinasia arthuri Cooper & Preston, 1910
Current name: Malvinasia arthuri Cooper & Preston, 1910
Bivalvia : Imparidentia (Superorder) : Galeommatoidea : Montacutidae

Type Locality: “Falkland Islands” “material recently collected by Mr. Arthur F. Cobb” [Falkland Islands (Malvinas)]

Syntype(s) (possible)
Lucinoma asapheus Oliver, Rodrigues & Cunha, 2011
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Lucinoma asapheus Oliver, Rodrigues & Cunha, 2011
Bivalvia : Lucinida : Lucinoidea : Lucinidae

Type Locality: TTR15, stn. AT569GR, El Arraiche Field, Mercantor mv, Gulf of Cadiz, NE Atlantic. 35°17.917’N 06°38.717’W, 358m, 25/07/2005, Dept. Biology Aviero University, Portugal

Holotype
Lucinoma asapheus Oliver, Rodrigues & Cunha, 2011
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Lucinoma asapheus Oliver, Rodrigues & Cunha, 2011
Bivalvia : Lucinida : Lucinoidea : Lucinidae

Type Locality: TTR15, stn. AT569GR, El Arraiche Field, Mercantor mv, Gulf of Cadiz, NE Atlantic. 35°17.917’N 06°38.717’W, 358m, 25/07/2005, Dept. Biology Aviero University, Portugal

Paratype(s)
Psammotreta aurora Hanley, 1844
Leeds Museums and Galleries
Current name: Psammotreta psammotella (Lamarck, 1818)
Bivalvia : Cardiida : Tellinoidea : Tellinidae

Type Locality: Panama [Panama]

Paralectotype(s) (possible)
Mytilus avonensis Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Anodonta anatina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Bivalvia : Unionida : Unionoidea : Unionidae

Type Locality: River Avon, Wiltshire [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Tellina balaustina Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Arcopella balaustina Linnaeus, 1758
Bivalvia : Cardiida : Tellinoidea : Tellinidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Tellina balthica Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Limecola balthica Linnaeus, 1758
Bivalvia : Cardiida : Tellinoidea : Tellinidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Arca barbata Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Barbatia barbata Linnaeus, 1758
Bivalvia : Arcoida : Arcoidea : Arcidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Mytilus barbatus Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Modiolus barbatus Linnaeus, 1758
Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytiloidea : Mytilidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Limopsis bassi Smith, 1885
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Limopsis bassi Smith, 1885
Bivalvia : Arcida : Limopsoidea : Limopsidae

Type Locality: Bass Strait. 38 fms.

Syntype(s) (possible) (lost)
Unio bhamaoensis Theobald, 1873
Leeds Museums and Galleries
Current name: Parreysia bhamaoensis Theobold, 1873
Bivalvia : Unionida : Unionoidea : Unionidae

Type Locality: prope Bhamo, regno Birmanico; necnon in Prome occidentali (Western Prome) Provinciâ Pegu [Myanmar]

Syntype(s) (possible)
Chama bicornis Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Chama bicornis Linnaeus, 1758
Bivalvia : Venerida : Chamidae : Chamidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Tellina bimaculata Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Heterodonax bimaculatus Linnaeus, 1758
Bivalvia : Cardiida : Tellinoidea : Psammobiidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Brachyodontes (Hormomya) blakeanus Melvill & Standen, 1914
Current name: Philobrya blakeanus (Melvill & Standen, 1914)
Bivalvia : Arcida : Limopsoidea : Philobryidae

Type Locality: Roy Cove, Falkland Islands [Falkland Islands (Malvinas)]

Lectotype
Grandidieria bloomeri Crowley, Pain & Woodward, 1964
Current name: Coelatura hypsiprymna (Martens, 1897)
Bivalvia : Unionida : Unionoidea : Unionidae

Type Locality: Lake bed at Eccles Point, Nkata Bay, Lake Nyasa] [Malawi]

Paratype(s)
Venus borealis Linnaeus, 1767
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Lucinoma borealis Linnaeus, 1767
Bivalvia : Lucinoida : Lucinoidea : Lucinidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Bourdotia boschorum Dekker & Goud, 1994
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Current name: Bourdotia boschorum Dekker & Goud, 1994
Bivalvia : Veneroida : Lucinoidea : Lucinidae

Type Locality: Oman, Masirah Island, Sur Masirah, 20°25’N., 58°44’E, on sand flat at low tide. [Oman]

Holotype
Mactra boysii Montagu, 1803
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Current name: Abra alba (Wood, 1802)
Bivalvia : Cardiida : Tellinoidea : Semelidae

Type Locality: Sandwich in Kent; Studland; Salcombe; Bideford [United Kingdom]

Syntype(s)
Cuspidaria brucei Melvill & Standen, 1907
National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh
Current name: Cuspidaria undata (Verrill, 1884)
Bivalvia : Cuspidarioidea : Cuspidariidae

Type Locality: Lat., 39º 48' S., Long. 2º 33' E, 2645 fathoms

syntype
Tellina bruguieri Hanley, 1844
Leeds Museums and Galleries
Current name: Macalia bruguieri (Hanley, 1844)
Bivalvia : Cardiida : Tellinoidea : Tellinidae

Type Locality: Ilo-Ilo, isle of Panhay [Philippines]

Syntype(s)
Tindaria brunnea Dall, 1916
Manchester Museum
Current name: Neilonella brunnea Dall, 1916
Bivalvia : Nuculanida : Nuculanoidea : Neilonellidae

Type Locality: 'Albatross' station 3604, Bering Sea, in 1401 fathoms. [Midway between St Paul and Unmak Ids., Bering Sea]

Paratype(s)
Chama calyculata Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Cardita calyculata Linnaeus, 1758
Bivalvia : Carditida : Carditoidea : Carditidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
Modiola (Lithodomus) canaliferus Hanley, 1843
Current name: Leiosolenus canaliferus (Hanley, 1843)
Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytiloidea : Mytilidae

Type Locality: Hanley, 1844: Zebu, Philippine Islands. [Philippines]

Paralectotype(s)
Amussium cancellatum Smith, 1885
National Museums Liverpool
Current name: Parvamussium cancellatum Smith, 1885
Bivalvia : Pectinida : Pectinoidea : Propeamussiidae

Type Locality: Bermuda

Syntype(s) (possible) (lost)
Pholas candidus Linnaeus, 1758
The Linnean Society of London
Current name: Barnea candida Linnaeus, 1758
Bivalvia : Myida : Pholadoidea : Pholadidae

Type Locality:

Syntype(s) (possible)
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