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Publication Blainville (1818): summary

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Blainville. 1818. Cyclade, Cyclas. Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médecine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les artes. Suivi d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes ...Par plusieurs professeurs du Jardin du roi, et des princpales écoles de Paris. 12: 277-280. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Corneocyclas Blainville, 1818

‘Féruss.’ Blainville, 1818. Dict. Sci. Nat. 12: 278.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Cyclas Lamarck, 1799; new name for Cornea Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811)
Type species: Cornea communis Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 = Sphaerium corneum

Cyanocyclas Blainville, 1818

Blainville, 1818. Dict. Sci. Nat. 12: 280.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Cyclas Lamarck, 1799)
Type species: Tellina limosa Maton, 1811 (sub. desig. by Dall, 1903: 1450) = Cyanocyclas limosa

Attributed Nominal Species

Cyclas amnia Blainville, 1818 = Pisidium amnicum

‘Muller’ Blainville, 1818. Dict. Sci. Nat. 12: 280.
(error for Tellina amnica Müller, 1774)

Cyclas caliculata Blainville, 1818 = Sphaerium lacustre

‘Draparnaud’ of Authors.
Blainville, 1818. Dict. Sci. Nat. 12: 279.
Vinarski & Kantor, 2016. Analyt. Cat. Fr. Brack. Moll. Russia: 94.
(error for Cyclas calyculata Draparnaud, 1806)

Cyclas ceylanica Blainville, 1818 = Geloina erosa

‘Chemnitz’ Blainville, 1818. Dict. Sci. Nat. 12: 279.

Cyclas consobrina Blainville, 1818 = Sphaerium ovale

Féruss. in Blainville, 1818. Dict. Sci. Nat. 12: 279.

Taxonomic Opinions

Cyclas (Corneocyclas) amnia [sic] Muller = Pisidium amnicum
+ Cyclas palustris Draparnaud, 1806

Cyclas (Corneocyclas) caroliniana Bosc = Polymesoda caroliniana

Cyclas (Corneocyclas) ceylanica Chemnitz = Geloina erosa
+ Venus coaxans Gmelin, 1791

Cyclas (Corneocyclas) consobrina Féruss. = Sphaerium ovale
+ Cyclas lacustris Draparnaud, 1806

Cyclas (Corneocyclas) consobrina Féruss. = Sphaerium nucleus

Cyclas (Corneocyclas) dubia Say = Pisidium dubium

Cyclas (Corneocyclas) fontinalis Drap. = Euglesa casertana

Cyclas (Corneocyclas) lacustris Mull. = Sphaerium lacustre
+ Cyclas calyculata Draparnaud, 1806

Cyclas (Corneocyclas) rivalis Drap. = Sphaerium corneum
+ Tellina cornea Linnaeus, 1758

Cyclas (Corneocyclas) rivicola Leach = Sphaerium rivicola
+ Cyclas cornea Draparnaud, 1801

Cyclas (Corneocyclas) similis Say = Sphaerium simile

Cyclas (Cyanocyclas) fluminalis Muller = Corbicula fluminalis

Cyclas (Cyanocyclas) fluminea Mull. et Gmel. = Corbicula fluminea

Cyclas (Cyanocyclas) fluviatilis Mull. = Corbicula fluminea

Cyclas (Cyanocyclas) hermaphrodita Martin = Galatea paradoxa

Cyclas (Cyanocyclas) limosa Maton = Cyanocyclas limosa

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