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Publication Prime (1867): taxonomic opinions
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Prime, T. 1867. Notes on species of the family Corbiculadæ, with figures. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 8: 57-92, 213-237, 414-418. Available electronically.

Taxonomic Opinions

Batissa ponderosa Prime

Batissa similis Prime

Batissa solidula Prime = Batissa violacea

Batissa triquetra Deshayes

Corbicula africana Deshayes
+ Cyrena gauritziana Krauss, 1848

Corbicula agrensis Prime = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula bengalica Deshayes = Corbicula striatella
+ Corbicula bengalensis Deshayes, 1854

Corbicula blandiana nov. spec.

Corbicula brunnea Prime

Corbicula chemnitziana nov. spec. = Corbicula fluminea

Corbicula colonialis nov. sp. = Corbicula ducalis

Corbicula consanguinea nov. spec. = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula cor = Corbicula fluminea

Corbicula crassula Mousson = Corbicula fluminalis

Corbicula crosseana nov. spec. = Corbicula manilensis

Corbicula cumingii Deshayes = Corbicula manilensis
+ Corbicula squalida Deshayes, 1854
+ Corbicula notata Prime, 1861

Corbicula difficilis nov. spec. = Corbicula fluminalis

Corbicula ducalis Prime
+ Corbicula fluminea Philippi, 1846

Corbicula erosa Prime

Corbicula fluminea

Corbicula inaequilateralis Prime = Corbicula fluminalis

Corbicula insularis nov. spec.

Corbicula japonica nov. spec.

Corbicula kirkii nov. spec. = Corbicula africana

Corbicula lamarckiana nov. spec.

Corbicula largillierti Deshayes

Corbicula larnaudieri Prime

Corbicula leana nov. spec.

Corbicula leviuscula nov. spec.

Corbicula linneana nov. spec. = Corbicula lamarckiana

Corbicula lutea Morelet

Corbicula lydigiana Prime

Corbicula malaccana Deshayes = Corbicula malaccensis

Corbicula mediocris Prime = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula minor Prime

Corbicula moreletiana nov. sp.

Corbicula mülleriana nov. spec. = Corbicula nitens

Corbicula occidens Benson = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula parvula Prime = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula pexata nov. pec. = Corbicula fluminea

Corbicula pfeifferiana nov. spec. = Corbicula fluminea

Corbicula pisidiiformis nov. spec. = Corbicula lydigiana

Corbicula primeana Morelet, 1862 = Corbicula bocourti
+ Cyrena (Batissa) primei Morelet, 1862

Corbicula purpurea nov. spec. = Corbicula fluminalis

Corbicula quilonensis Benson

Corbicula rhomboidea Prime = Corbicula malaccensis

Corbicula sayana nov. spec. = Corbicula manilensis

Corbicula solidula Prime

Corbicula stimpsoniana nov. spec.

Corbicula striatella Deshayes
+ Corbicula violacea Prime, 1861

Corbicula subradiata Prime = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula sulcatina Deshayes = Corbicula largillierti

Corbicula triangularis Deshayes = Corbicula fluminea

Corbicula trigona Deshayes = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula tumida Deshayes

Corbicula venustula nov. spec. = Corbicula manilensis

Corbicula vulgaris nov. spec. = Corbicula largillierti

Corbicula woodiana Deshayes = Corbicula fluminea
+ Cyrena similis Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833
+ Corbicula grandis Deshayes, 1854
+ Cyrena similis Deshayes, 1854
+ Corbicula primeana Mörch, 1861

Corbicula woodiana Deshayes = Corbicula similis

Cyrena bernardiiana [sic] Prime = Geloina expansa

Cyrena chilina nov. spec. = Polymesoda fontainei

Cyrena cyprinaeformis Prime

Cyrena exquisita nov. spec. = Polymesoda boliviana

Cyrena germana nov. spec. = Polymesoda arctata

Cyrena laevis Prime = Geloina nitida

Cyrena mörchiana nov. spec.

Cyrena ponderosa Prime

Cyrena proxima nov. spec. = Geloina expansa

Cyrena regularis Prime = Geloina bengalensis

Cyrena siamica Prime = Geloina bengalensis

Cyrena triangularis Metcalfe

Pisidium nov-zelandicum [sic] Prime = Euglesa novaezelandiae

Velorita cochinensis Hanley = Villorita cyprinoides

Velorita parvula nov. spec.