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Five Recent Mya species, including three new species and their fossil connections

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Three new species of Mya Linné are described from Greenland. Mya eideri sp. nov. is figured and compared with boreal and fossil species with which it has been confused, and the known distribution of the species is indicated. The validity in Recent faunas of the fossil species M. pseudoarenaria and M. uddevallensis is discussed; two new Recent species, M. neoovata sp. nov. and M. neouddevallensis sp. nov., from Ikka Fjord, southwest Greenland, and Scoresbysund, East Greenland, respectively, are described for Recent material of the comparable two fossil taxa.

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  1. Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark e-mail: ghpetersen@zmuc.ku.dk Fax: +45-35-321010, , , , , , DK

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Accepted: 2 May 1999

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Høpner Petersen, G. Five Recent Mya species, including three new species and their fossil connections. Polar Biol 22, 322–328 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003000050425

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