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Publication Sowerby (1868): summary
publication summary Complete CitationSowerby, G.B. 1868. Genus Mycetopus. Conchologica Iconica 16: pls. 1-4. Available electronically.
Attributed Nominal SpeciesMycetopus plicatus Sowerby, 1868
  ‘Gray?, MS” Sowerby, 1868. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 2, sp. 3.
Type(s): MANUSCRIPT NAME BMNH_46-7-24-18, Syene, Egypt. | |
Mycetopus rugatus Sowerby, 1868
  Sowerby, 1868. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 3, sp. 7.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE BMNH_44-1-12-160 (by McMichael & Hiscock, 1958: 433), Victoria River, N. Australia. | |
Mycetopus subsinuatus Sowerby, 1868
 Sowerby, 1868. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 4, sp. 10.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) ZMB/MOLL_220179, Bogota, New Granada. | |
Taxonomic OpinionsMycetopus emarginatus Lea, 1860 = Solenaia emarginata Mycetopus falcatus Higgins, 1868 = Mycetopodella falcata Mycetopus plicatus ‘Gray?, MS” Sowerby, 1868 = Mutela dubia Mycetopus pygmaeus (Spix) = Mycetopoda siliquosa Mycetopus rugatus Sowerby, 1868 = Lortiella rugata Mycetopus siliquosus (d’Orbigny) = Mycetopoda siliquosa
+ Anodon longinus Wagner, 1827 Mycetopus soleniformis (d’Orbigny, 1835) = Mycetopoda soleniformis Mycetopus subsinuatus Sowerby, 1868 = Mycetopoda subsinuata Mycetopus ventricosus d’Orbigny, 1843 = Mycetopoda siliquosa Mycetopus weddellii Hupé, 1857 = Mycetopoda siliquosa
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