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Publication Fleming (1828): summary

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Full Citation

Fleming, J. 1828. A History of British Animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the general and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, mollusca, and radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. 565 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Alismadon Fleming, 1828

Fleming, 1828. Hist. Brit. Anim.: 408.
(error for Alasmodon Thompson, 1820)
Type species: Unio undulata Say, 1817 = Alasmidonta undulata

Galateola Herrmannsen, 1846

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

Attributed Nominal Species

Musculus latus Fleming, 1828 = Anodonta cygnea

‘Lister’ Fleming, 1828. Hist. Brit. Anim.: 415.
(intro'd as syn of Mytilus cygneus Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomic Opinions

Anodon anatinus = Anodonta anatina

Anodon cygneus = Anodonta cygnea
+ Musculus latus Fleming, 1828

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