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Publication Prime (1863): summary

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Full Citation

Prime, T. 1863. Catalogue of the Species of Corbiculadæ containted in the collection of Temple Prime. 18 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Corbicula angasi Prime, 1864 = Corbicula australis

Prime, 1863. Cat. Corbicul.: 4. [nomen nudum]
Prime, 1864. J. de Conch. 12: 151, pl. 7, fig. 6.

Corbicula laeviuscula Prime, 1863 = Corbicula leviuscula

‘Prime’ of Authors.
Prime, 1863. Cat. Corbicul.: 3.
Crosse & Fischer, 1876. J. de Conch. 24: 334.
Morlet, 1891. J. de Conch. 39: 253.
(error for Corbicula leviuscula Prime, 1867)

Corbicula manillensis Prime, 1860 = Corbicula manilensis

‘Philippi’ of Authors.
Prime, 1860. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 12: 271.
Prime, 1863. Cat. Corbicul.: 4.
Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 133.
Clessin, 1879. Conch. Cab. 9(3): 187.
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 13.
(error for Cyrena manilensis Philippi, 1844)

Pisidium novaezelandiae Prime, 1862 = Euglesa novaezelandiae

Prime, 1862. Proc. Zool. Soc. London: 3.
Prime, 1863. Cat. Corbicul.: 17.
specimen image from publicationPrime, 1867. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8: 91, fig. 39 [as ‘nov-zelandicum’].
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 61 [as ‘nov.-zealandicum’].

Cyrena proxima Prime, 1867 = Geloina expansa

Prime, 1863. Cat. Corbicul.: 6. [nomen nudum]
specimen image from publicationPrime, 1867. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8: 85, fig. 34.

Pisidium simile Prime, 1863 = sphaeriid species

Prime, 1863. Cat. Corbicul.: 15.
specimen image from publicationPrime, 1865. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. (145): 69, fig. 74.

Taxonomic Opinions

Corbicula agrensis Prime = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula angasi Prime = Corbicula australis

Corbicula australis Deshayes

Corbicula bengalensis Deshayes = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula brunea Prime

Corbicula convexa Deshayes

Corbicula crassula Prime = Corbicula fluminalis

Corbicula cumingii Deshayes = Corbicula manilensis

Corbicula cuneata Deshayes = Cyanocyclas cuneata

Corbicula ducalis Prime

Corbicula erosa Prime

Corbicula fluminalis Deshayes
+ Cyrena orientalis Lamarck, 1818
+ Corbicula moussoni Deshayes, 1854

Corbicula fluminalis Deshayes = Corbicula fluminea

Corbicula fluminalis Deshayes = Corbicula javanica

Corbicula gracilis Prime = Corbicula javanica

Corbicula laeviuscula [sic] Prime = Corbicula leviuscula

Corbicula largillierti Deshayes
+ Corbicula sulcatina Deshayes, 1854

Corbicula larnaudieri Prime

Corbicula limosa Deshayes = Cyanocyclas limosa
+ Cyclas (Cyrena) variegata d’Orbigny, 1835
+ Corbicula semisulcata Deshayes, 1854

Corbicula lydigiana Prime

Corbicula manillensis [sic] Prime = Corbicula manilensis

Corbicula minor Prime

Corbicula nitens Deshayes

Corbicula notata Prime = Corbicula manilensis

Corbicula occidens Benson = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula paranacensis Deshayes = Cyanocyclas paranacensis

Corbicula parvula Prime = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula prolongata Prime

Corbicula pulchella Deshayes

Corbicula rhomboidea Prime = Corbicula malaccensis

Corbicula rivalis Deshayes

Corbicula rotunda Deshayes = Cyanocyclas rotunda

Corbicula striatella Deshayes

Corbicula subradiata Prime = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula trigona Deshayes = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula tumida Deshayes

Corbicula venustula Prime = Corbicula manilensis

Corbicula violacea Prime = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula woodiana Deshayes = Corbicula fluminea
+ Corbicula primeana Mörch, 1861

 
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