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Theora mesopotamica : ウィキペディア英語版 | Theora mesopotamica
''Theora mesopotamica'' is a species of saltwater and brackish water clam, a bivalve mollusk in the family Semelidae. This species is known from the northwestern end of the Persian Gulf, and from subfossil remains in brackish deposits in the lower Tigris–Euphrates basin of Iraq. == Taxonomy == In 1918, this species was first described by Nelson Annandale, from specimens collected by W. H. Lane, which were placed in the Indian Museum. Annandale named the species ''Corbula (Erodona) mesopotamica'', believing it to belong in the subgenus ''Erodona'' within the genus ''Corbula''. Annandale believed this bivalve was most similar to ''Corbula pfefferi'' (now ''Potamocorbula abbreviata''), an Indian species. The species epithet ''mesopotamica'' refers to the species having been found in the Mesopotamian region. In 1957, F. E. Eames and G. D. Wilkins, biologists working for British Petroleum, described a new species with the name ''Abra cadabra''. Eames later told S. Peter Dance that he chose the name because, as a species known from subfossils, it "had been dead for a long time, and could be described as a cadaver," and as a pun on the familiar magical incantation ''abracadabra''. In 1995, ''Abra cadabra'' was moved to the genus ''Theora'' by P. G. Oliver.〔, cited in .〕 In 2005, J.-C. Plaziat and W. R. Younis discovered that the name was a junior synonym of Annandale's ''Corbula mesopotamica'' and those two authors changed the name of the species to the new combination, ''Theora mesopotamica''.
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