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Publication Adanson (1757): summary

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Adanson, M. 1757. Histoire naturelle du Sénégal: Coquillages: avec la relation abrégée d’un voyage fait en ce pays, pendant les années 1749, 50, 51, 52 & 53. 275 pp., 19 pls. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Mutela Scopoli, 1777

Adanson, 1757. Hist. Nat. Sénégal, Coquillages: 234 [as ‘le mutel’]. [pre-linnaean]
Scopoli, 1777. Intro. His. Nat., etc.: 397, no. 83.
Type species: Mytilus dubius Gmelin, 1791 (monotypy) = Mutela dubia

Attributed Nominal Species

Mytilus dubius Gmelin, 1791 = Mutela dubia

Adanson, 1757. Hist. Nat. Sénégal, Coquillages: 234, pl. 17, fig. 21 [as ‘le mutel’]. [pre-linnaean]
Gmelin, 1791. Syst. Nat. 1(6): 3363, sp. 56.
(renamed Anodonta adansonii Gray, 1825)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_UNCATALOGED, “lacs d’eau douce de l’intérieur du Sénégal”.

Iridina mutel Rang, 1835 = Mutela dubia

Adanson, 1757. Hist. Nat. Sénégal, Coquillages: 234, pl. 17, fig. 21 [as ‘le mutel’]. [pre-linnaean]
Rang, 1835. Nouv. Ann. Mus. 4(3): 314.
 
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