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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Publication Herrmannsen (1846): summary
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Complete Citation

Herrmannsen, A.N. 1846. Indicis Generum Malacozoorum Primordia; nomina subgenerum, generum, familiarum, tribuum, ordinum, classium; adjectis auctoribus, temporibus, locis systematicis atque literariis, etymis, synonymis 1: 1-232, xxvii. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Aenoceophalus Herrmannsen, 1846
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: 21.
(error for Enocephalus Münster, 1831)

Aetheria Oken, 1818
Oken, 1818. Isis (Oken) 1818: 1117.
Sowerby, 1825. Zool. Jour. 1: 518.
Berthold in Latreille, 1827. unknown publication: 208.
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 38 [as ‘Ætheria].
Menke, 1828. Syn. Method. Moll.: 65.
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: 22.
Agassiz, 1846. Nomencl. Zool. Index Univ.: 10.
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 509.
Woodward, 1871. Man. Moll: 435.
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 53.
Zittel, 1881. Handb. Palaeo. 1: 58.
Westerlund, 1902. Rad. Jugoslav. Akad. 150: 138.
(new name for Etheria Lamarck, 1807)

Anelasmodonta Herrmannsen, 1846
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: 27, 54.

Appias Herrmannsen, 1846
‘Leach’ Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: 58.
(error for Appius Menke, 1830)

Galateola Herrmannsen, 1846
Fleming, 1828. Hist. Brit. Anim.: 409. [nomen nudum]
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: 458.

Limnoderma Herrmannsen, 1846
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: 58.
(error for Limnaeoderma Poli, 1795)

Potodoma Herrmannsen, 1846
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: ??.
(homonym of Meigen, 1800; renamed Pseudunio Haas, 1910)
Type species: Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819 (orig. desig.) = Pseudunio auricularius
 
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