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Publication Carpenter (1857): summary

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Full Citation

Carpenter. 1857. Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells, in the British Museum: collected by Frederick Reigen. (2nd ed.). 552 pp.

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodonta ciconia Carpenter, 1857 = Anodontites trapesialis

‘Gould’ of Authors.
Carpenter, 1857. Maz. Shells: 117.
Fischer & Crosse, 1894. Miss. Sci. Mexique, Rech. Zool. 2(15): 534, pl. 68, 78, figs. 2-2a.
Martens, 1900. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Moll.: 536, pl. 41, fig. 4.
(reference to Anodon ciconia Gould, 1851)

Modiola brasiliensis var. mutabilis Carpenter, 1857 = Mytella guyanensis

Carpenter, 1857. Maz. Shells: ??.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Modiola brasiliensis Gray, 1825)

Cyrena olivacea Carpenter, 1857 = Polymesoda altilis

Carpenter, 1857. Maz. Shells: 114.
(homonym of Cyrena africana var. olivacea Krauss, 1848)

Cyrena varians Carpenter, 1857 = Polymesoda mexicana

Carpenter, 1857. Maz. Shells: 115. [nomen nudum]

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