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Taxon: Family Placunidae Rafinesque, 1815 (mollusc)
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Authorship

Original name Rafinesque, 1815. Analyse de la nature: 148. ["Placunia"].
Subsequent spelling Gray, J.E. 1840b. Syn. Cont. Brit. Mus. (ed. 42): 142 ("family of Placunidæ"), 151 ("Fam. 4. Placunidæ.").
Isonym: name, rank & spelling Yonge, C.M. 1977. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (B) 276 (950): 515-516 ("new proposed family"); title ("Fam. Nov.").

Types

TypePlacuna (Genus) Solander, 1786

Synonyms

Accepted nameAnomiidae (Family) Rafinesque, 1815 Ref: F.J. Springsteen & F.M. Leobrera, 1986: 367.
Synonymous namePlacentidae (Family) Gray, 1847 Ref: PBDB: 9 Mar 2019.
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