Publication Fleming (1828): summary

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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2090100.

Attributed Nominal Families

DONACIDAE Fleming, 1828

Fleming, 1828. Hist. Brit. Anim.: 409.
Type genus: Donax Linnaeus, 1758 = Donax

LUCINIDAE Fleming, 1828

Fleming, 1828. Hist. Brit. Anim.: 441 [as ‘Lucinadae’].
Type genus: Lucina Bruguière, 1797 = Lucina

PSAMMOBIIDAE Fleming, 1828

Fleming, 1828. Hist. Brit. Anim.: ??.
Type genus: Psammobia Lamarck, 1818 = Gari

UNIONIDAE Rafinesque, 1820

Rafinesque, 1820. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 290 [as ‘Uniodia, Les Uniodés’].
Fleming, 1828. Hist. Brit. Anim.: 408, 415 [as ‘Unionidæ’].
Type genus: Unio Retzius, 1788 = Unio

Attributed Nominal Genera

Alismadon Fleming, 1828

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

Anodon Oken, 1815

(new name for Anodonta Lamarck, 1799)
Oken, 1815. Lehrb. Naturg. 3: 238.
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 30.
Fleming, 1828. Hist. Brit. Anim.: 415.
‘Lam.’ Sowerby, 1839. Conch. Man.: 6.
‘Lam.’ Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 262.
‘Burguière’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 1.
Type species: Mytilus cygneus Linnaeus, 1758 = Anodonta cygnea

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

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

Unio urii Fleming, 1828 = species iquirenda

Fleming, 1828. Hist. Brit. Anim.: 417. [nomen dubium]

Taxonomic Opinions

Alasmodon margaritifera = Margaritifera margaritifera

Anodon anatinus = Anodonta anatina

+ Mytilus anatinus Maton & Rackett, 1807

Anodon cygneus = Anodonta cygnea

+ Musculus latus Fleming, 1828

Unio acutus = Carbonicola acuta

Unio batava = Unio crassus

There are 21 species taxonomic opinions attributed to this publication.