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Publication Bosc (1801): summary

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Bosc, L.A.G. 1801. Histoire naturelle des coquilles, contenant leur description, les moeurs des animaux qui les habitent et leurs usages. Avec figures dessinees d'apres nature. 3 (1st ed.). 292 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Erodona Bosc, 1801

Daudin in Bosc, 1801. Hist. Nat. Coquilles 3: 329.
Type species: Erodona mactroides Bosc, 1801 (sub. desig. by Dall, 1898) = Erodona mactroides

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio caroliniana Bosc, 1801 = Uniomerus carolinianus

Bosc, 1801. Hist. Nat. Coquilles 3: 142.
Bosc, 1824. Hist. Nat. Coquilles 3: 139, pl. 23, fig. 2.

Cyclas caroliniana Bosc, 1801 = Polymesoda caroliniana

Bosc, 1801. Hist. Nat. Coquilles 3: pl. 18, fig. 4.

Anodonta fluviatilis Bosc, 1801 = Pyganodon cataracta

‘Gmelin’ of Authors.
Bosc, 1801. Hist. Nat. Coquilles 3: 146.
Dillwyn, 1817. Descr. Cat. Rec. Shells 1: 316 [’Mytilus fluviatilis’].
Bosc, 1824. Hist. Nat. Coquilles 3: 143.
(misidentified reference to Mytilus fluviatilis Gmelin, 1791)

Erodona mactroides Bosc, 1801 = Erodona mactroides

Daudin in Bosc, 1801. Hist. Nat. Coquilles 3: ??.

Anodonta stagnalis Bosc, 1801 = Anodonta cygnea

‘Gmelin’ Bosc, 1801. Hist. Nat. Coquilles 3: 146.
(reference to Mytilus stagnalis Gmelin, 1791)

Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta anatina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Anodonta cygnea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Anodonta dubia (Gmelin, 1791) = Mutela dubia

Anodonta fluviatilis (Gmelin, 1791) = Atlanticoncha ochracea

Anodonta stagnalis (Gmelin, 1791) = Anodonta cygnea

Anodonta zellensis (Gmelin, 1791) = Anodonta cygnea

Unio caroliniana Bosc, 1801 = Uniomerus carolinianus

Unio margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) = Margaritifera margaritifera
+ Mya margaritifera Gmelin, 1791
+ Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819

Unio margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758) = Pseudunio auricularius

Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
+ Mya pictorum Gmelin, 1791

Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758) = Unio crassus

 
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