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Publication Van Beneden (1835): summary

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Van Beneden, P.J. 1835. Histoire naturelle et anatomique du Dreissena polymoprha, genre nouveau dans la famille de Mytilacées. Bulletins de l’Académie royale des sciences, des letters et des beaux-arts de Belgique 2: 25-26. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835

Van Beneden, 1835. Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 25. [nomen nudum]
Van Beneden, 1835. Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 44.
Type species: Mytulus polymorphus Pallas, 1771 = Dreissena polymorpha

Driessena Van Beneden, 1835

Van Beneden, 1835. Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 25.
Van Beneden, 1835. Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 44.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)

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