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Publication Lamarck (1801): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Lamarck, J.B. 1801. Systême des Animaux sans Vertèbres, ou Tableau général des classes, des orders et des genres de ces animaux. 432 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Anodonta Lamarck, 1799
Cuvier, 1798. Tab. Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim.: ??.
Lamarck, 1799. Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. 1: 87.
Lamarck, 1801. Sys. Anim. sans Vert.: 114.
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 83.
Type species: Mytilus cygneus Linnaeus, 1758 (monotypy) = Anodonta cygnea

Modiola Lamarck, 1801
Lamarck, 1801. Sys. Anim. sans Vert.: ??.

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio littoralis Cuvier, 1798
Schröter, 1779. Gesch. Flußconch.: pl. 2, fig. 3.
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 248, fig. 2 [as Unio sp.].
Cuvier, 1798. Tab. Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim.: 425.
Lamarck, 1801. Sys. Anim. sans Vert.: 114.
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 76, sp. 25.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MHNG_UNKNOWN, France, common in the Seine.

Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta anatina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Unio littoralis Lamarck, 1801 = Potomida littoralis

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