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Publication Gould (1848): summary

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Gould, A.A. 1848. Descriptions of shells found in Connecticut, collected and named by the late Rev. J. H. Linsley. American Journal of Science and Arts 56(17): 233-236.

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Anodonta housatonica Gould, 1848 = Utterbackiana implicata

Linsley, 1845. Amer. J. Sci. 48(2): 277. [nomen nudum]
Gould, 1848. Amer. J. Sci. 56(17): 234, figs. 4-5.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_678302, Housatonica R., Fairfield Co., Connecticut.

Cyclas truncata Linsley, 1845 = Sphaerium partumeium

Linsley, 1845. Amer. J. Sci. 48(2): 276.
Lindsley in Gould, 1848. Amer. J. Sci. 56(17): 324, fig. 3.

 
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