Nome original: Macoma biota Arruda & Domaneschi, 2005
Descrição original: Arruda E.P. & Domaneschi O. 2005. New species of Macoma (Bivalvia: Tellinoidea: Tellinidae) from southeastern Brazil, and with description of its gross anatomy. Zootaxa 1012 : 13-22, available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1012.1.2
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