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Publication Deshayes (1854): summary
publication summary

Complete 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)

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)

Polymeroda Deshayes, 1854
Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 241.
(error for Polymesoda Rafinesque, 1820)

Attributed Nominal Species

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