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Publication Deshayes (1854): summary

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Full Citation

Deshayes, G.P. 1854. Veneridæ, Cyprinidæ and Glauconomidæ. Catalogue of the Conchifera or Bivalve Shells in the Collection of the British Museum part 1: 1-216. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Amisoda Deshayes, 1854

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 261.
(error for Amesoda Rafinesque, 1820)

Anomala Deshayes, 1854

Deshayes, 1854. Proc. Zool. Soc. London: 20.
Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 255.
(homonym of v. Block, 1799 [Hymen.]; intro'd as sub-gen. of Cyrena Lamarck, 1818; renamed Egeta Adams & Adams, 1857)
Type species: Cyrena anomala Deshayes, 1854 (tautonomy) = Polymesoda anomala

Cyrenella Deshayes, 1854

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: ?, pl. 15, fig. 4.
(new name for Cyrenoida de Joannis, 1835)
Type species: Cyrenoida dupontia de Joannis, 1835 = Cyrenoida dupontia

Cyrenodonta Deshayes, 1854

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 240 [as ‘Cyrenodontæ’].
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 453.
(error for Cyrenoida de Joannis, 1835)
Type species: Cyrenoida dupontia de Joannis, 1835 = Cyrenoida dupontia

Polymeroda Deshayes, 1854

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 241.
(error for Polymesoda Rafinesque, 1820)
Type species: Cyclas caroliniana Bosc, 1801 = Polymesoda caroliniana

Attributed Nominal Species

Pisum adamsi Deshayes, 1854 = Pisidium jamaicense

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 284.
(new name for Cyclas pygmaea Adams, 1849; homonym of Pisidium adamsii Stimpson, 1851)

Cyrena aequilateralis Deshayes, 1854 = Polymesoda mexicana

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 255 [as ‘æquilateralis’].
(new name for Cyrena aequilatera Deshayes, 1854)

Corbicula brasiliana Deshayes, 1854 = Cyanocyclas brasiliana

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 232.
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 447.

Corbicula compressa Adams & Adams, 1857 = Corbicula rivalis

‘Mousson MS’ Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 227. [nomen nudum]
‘Mousson’ Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 447.

Corbicula cor Deshayes, 1854 = Corbicula fluminea

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 221.
(misidentified reference to Cyrena cor Lamarck, 1818)

There are 9 available nominal species attributed to this publication (15 total).

Corbicula cumingii Deshayes, 1854 = Corbicula manilensis

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 228.

Batissa jayana Deshayes, 1854 = Batissa violacea

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 237.
(new name for Cyrena jayensis Lea, 1834)

Corbicula moussoni Deshayes, 1854 = Corbicula javanica

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 227.

Corbicula occidens Deshayes, 1854 = Corbicula striatella

“Benson” Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 223.

Pisum parasiticum Deshayes, 1854 = Eupera ferruginea

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 280.

Cyrena peruviana Deshayes, 1854 = Polymesoda anomala

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 259.

Pisum recluzianum Deshayes, 1854 = sphaeriid species

‘Bourguignat’ Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 279.
(error for Cyclas reclusianum Bourguignat, 1852)

Glauconome rostralis Deshayes, 1854 = Glauconome straminea

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: ??.

Cyclas straminea Deshayes, 1854 = Sphaerium striatinum

‘Conrad’ Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 267.
(error for Cyclas staminea Conrad, 1834)

Cyrena violacea var. suborbicularis Deshayes, 1854 = Batissa violacea

‘Mousson’ Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 238.
(error for Cyrena violacea var. javanica Mousson, 1849)

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