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Publication Cuvier (1798): summary
publication summary Complete CitationCuvier. 1798. Tableau élémentaire de l’Histoire naturelle des animaux. 710 pp. Available electronically.
Attributed Nominal GeneraAnodonta Lamarck, 1799
Cuvier, 1798. Tab. Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim.: ??.
Lamarck, 1799. Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. 1: 87.
Lamarck, 1801. Sys. Anim. sans Vert.: 114.
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 83.
Type species: Mytilus cygneus Linnaeus, 1758 (monotypy) = Anodonta cygnea Anodontes Cuvier, 1817
Cuvier, 1798. Tab. Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim.: 1758 [as ‘Anodontites’].
Cuvier, 1817. Règne Animal 2: 472.
(new name for Anodonta Lamarck, 1799)
Type species: Mytilus cygneus Linnaeus, 1758 = Anodonta cygnea Attributed Nominal SpeciesUnio littoralis Cuvier, 1798
Schröter, 1779. Gesch. Flußconch.: pl. 2, fig. 3.
 Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 248, fig. 2 [as Unio sp.].
Cuvier, 1798. Tab. Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim.: 425.
Lamarck, 1801. Sys. Anim. sans Vert.: 114.
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 76, sp. 25.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MHNG_UNKNOWN, France, common in the Seine. | |
Taxonomic OpinionsAnodontites anatinus (Lin.) = Anodonta anatina Unio littoralis = Potomida littoralis Unio margaritifera (Lin.) = Margaritifera margaritifera Unio pictorum (Lin.)
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