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Malacolog Version 4.1.1

A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Bivalvia: Archiheterodonta: Astartoidea: Astartidae

Astarte compressa (Linne, 1767)
Dubious name


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Venus compressa Linne, 1767,
[Basis of the current name]
Distribution: Greenland: East Greenland
Comments: Nomen dubium according to Coan et al. (2000); see Astarte elliptica for A. compressa of authors and A. montagui for A. compressa Montagu, 1808.



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