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Publication Eichwald (1838): summary

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Eichwald, E. 1838. Faunæ Caspii Maris primitiæ. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 11: 125-174. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Adacna Eichwald, 1838

Eichwald, 1838. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 11: 169.
Type species: Glycymeris laeviuscula Eichwald, 1829 (sub. desig. by Vest, 1875) = Adacna laeviuscula

Didacna Eichwald, 1838

Eichwald, 1838. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 11: 166.
Type species: Cardium trigonoides Pallas, 1771 = Didacna trigonoides

Glycymeris Eichwald, 1829

‘Lamarck’ Eichwald, 1829. Zool. Spec. Rossiae 1: 279.
‘Lamarck’ Eichwald, 1838. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 11: 169.
(error for Glycimeris Lamarck, 1799)

Hypanis Ménétries, 1832

Ménétries, 1832. Cat. rais. obj. zool. Caucase: 271.
Krynicki, 1837. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 10(2): 63.
Eichwald, 1838. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 11: 169.
Type species: Glycymeris plicata Eichwald, 1829 = Hypanis plicata

Monodacna Eichwald, 1838

Eichwald, 1838. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 11: 167.

Attributed Nominal Species

Adacna plicata Eichwald, 1838 = Hypanis plicata

Eichwald, 1838. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 11: 171 [as var. B].
(reference to Glycymeris plicata Eichwald, 1829)

Monodacna pontica Eichwald, 1838 = Monodacna caspia

Eichwald, 1838. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 11: 168.

Anodonta riparium Eichwald, 1838 = unionoid species

‘Pfeiff.’ Eichwald, 1838. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 11: 163. [nomen nudum]

Taxonomic Opinions

Adacna colorata m. = Monodacna colorata

Adacna læviuscula n. = Adacna laeviuscula

Adacna plicata m. = Hypanis plicata
+ Hypanis plicata Ménétries, 1832

Adacna plicata m. = Adacna vitrea

Adacna vitrea m.
+ Amphidesma caspia Krynicki, 1837

Anodonta cellensem Pfeiff. = Anodonta cygnea

Anodonta cygneum Pfeiff. = Anodonta cygnea

Anodonta intermedium Lam. = Anodonta cygnea

Anodonta ponderosum Pfeiff. = Anodonta anatina

Cardium edule L. = Cerastoderma edule

Cardium rusticum L.

Cyrena fuscata Lam. = Corbicula fluminea

Cyrena orientalis Lam. = Corbicula fluminea

Didacna crassa n. = Didacna eichwaldi
+ Cardium eichwaldi Krynicki, 1837

Didacna trigonoides (Pall.)

Dreissena polymorpha van Ben.

Monodacna caspia m. Zool. special.

Monodacna pontica m. = Monodacna caspia

Mytilus edulis L.

Unio pictorum Lam.

 
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