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Publication Pultney (1799): summary

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Pultney, R. 1799. Catalogues of the Birds, Shells, and some of the more rare Plants of Dorsetshire, from the new and enlarged edition of Mr. Hutchin’s History of that County.

Attributed Nominal Species

Cardium amnicum Pultney, 1799 = Sphaerium corneum

Pultney, 1799. Cat. Birds. Shells. Dorsetshire: 31.
(misidentified reference to Tellina amnica Müller, 1774)

Mya ovalis Montagu, 1803 = Unio tumidus

Philipsson in Retzius, 1788. Diss. Nat.-Hist. Test. Gen.: 17.
Pultney, 1799. Cat. Birds. Shells. Dorsetshire: 27. [nomen nudum]
Montagu, 1803. Test. Brit. (1): 34.
(misidentified reference to Mya ovalis Lightfoot, 1786)

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