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Publication Turton (1857): summary
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Complete Citation

Turton, W. 1857. A Manual of the Land and Fresh-Water Shells of the British Islands, arranged according to the more modern systems of classification; and described from perfect specimens n the author’s cabinet: with coloured plates of every species..

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio tumidus Rossmässler, 1836
Rossmässler, 1836. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 1 (3): pl. 14, fig. 203.
Rossmässler, 1838. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2 (1-2): 41, pl. 40, fig. 542.
Rossmässler, 1844. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2 (6): pl. 60, fig. 773.
Dupuy, 1852. Hist. Natur. Moll. France (6): pl. 28, fig. 20.
Turton, 1857. Man. Land Fresh-Water Shells Brit. Is.: pl. 2, fig. 13.
Forbes & Hanley, 1859. Brit. Moll.: pl. 40, fig. 1.
(reference to Unio tumidus Retzius, 1788)

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