Publication Wood (1828): summary

Full Citation

Wood, W. 1828. Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or a Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign. 59 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Aetheria Oken, 1818

Oken, 1818. Isis (Oken) 1818: 1117.
Sowerby, 1825. Zool. Jour. 1: 518.
Berthold in Latreille, 1827. unknown publication: 208.
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 38 [as ‘Ætheria].
Menke, 1828. Syn. Method. Moll.: 65.
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: 22.
Agassiz, 1846. Nomencl. Zool. Index Univ.: 10.
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 509.
Woodward, 1871. Man. Moll: 435.
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 53.
Zittel, 1881. Handb. Palaeo. 1: 58.
Westerlund, 1902. Rad. Jugoslav. Akad. 150: 138.
(new name for Etheria Lamarck, 1807)
Type species: Etheria semilunata Lamarck, 1807 = Etheria elliptica

Anodon Oken, 1815

Oken, 1815. Lehrb. Naturg. 3: 238.
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 30.
‘Lam.’ Sowerby, 1839. Conch. Man.: 6.
‘Lam.’ Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 262.
‘Burguière’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 1.
(new name for Anodonta Lamarck, 1799)
Type species: Mytilus cygneus Linnaeus, 1758 = Anodonta cygnea

Attributed Nominal Species

Castalia ambigua Wood, 1828 = Castalia ambigua

Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3 [as ‘Mya ambigua’].
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 30, pl. 1, fig. 9.
Wood & Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 200, pl. 1, fig. 9.
(reference to Castalia ambigua Lamarck, 1819)

Mya angulata Wood, 1828 = Triplodon corrugatus

Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3, pl. 1, fig. 12.
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 40 [as ‘Hyria corrugata’].
(new name for Hyria corrugata Lamarck, 1819)

Unio cariosus Wood, 1828 = Ortmanniana ligamentina

Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 6.
(misidentified reference to Unio cariosus Say, 1817)

Mya crassa Wood, 1815 = Gibbosula crassa

Wood, 1815. Gen. Conch. 1: 106, pls. 20-21.
specimen image from publicationWood, 1825. Index Testac.: 12, pl. 2, sp. 28.
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57 [as ‘Unio crassus’].

Iridina elongata Wood, 1828 = Pleiodon spekii

Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 7 [as ‘Arca elongata’].
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 41, pl. 2, sp. 10.
(misidentified reference to Iridina elongata G.B. Sowerby, 1821)

There are 8 available nominal species attributed to this publication (14 total).

Mya gravis Wood, 1828 = Ortmanniana ligamentina

Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3, pl. 1, sp. 6.
Hanley in Wood & Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 199, pl. 1, fig. 6.

Unio obliquus Wood, 1828 = Pleurobema sintoxia

Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3 [as ‘Mya obliqua’].
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 8.
Wood & Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 200, pl. 1, fig. 8.
(misidentified reference to Unio obliqua Lamarck, 1819)

Unio oblongatus Wood, 1828 = Lampsilis radiata

Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 2 [as ‘Mya oblongata’].
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 2.
Wood in Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 199, pl. 1, fig. 2.

Unio rigidus Wood, 1828 = Elliptio complanata

Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3 [as ‘Mya rigida’].
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 10.
Wood & Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 200.

Arca rostrum Wood, 1828 = Pleiodon ovatus

Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 6, pl. 2, sp. 9.
(new name for Iridina ovata Swainson, 1823)

Unio rotundatus Wood, 1828 = Obovaria subrotunda

Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57.
(error for Unio rotundus Wood, 1828)

Unio rotundus Wood, 1828 = Obovaria subrotunda

Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 2 [as ‘Mya rotunda’].
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 1 [as ‘Unio rotundatus’].
Wood in Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 199, pl. 1, fig. 1.
(homonym of Diplodon rotundus Spix in Wagner, 1827)

Unio rugulosus Wood, 1828 = Alasmidonta marginata

Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3 [as ‘Mya rugulosa’]. [nomen nudum]
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 7.

Venus similis Gray in Wood, 1828 = Corbicula similis

Gray in Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: pl. 2, fig. 5.

Taxonomic Opinions

Aetheria elliptica (Lamarck, 1807) = Etheria elliptica

Anodon anatinus (Linnaeus, 1758) = Anodonta anatina

Anodon cygneus (Linnaeus, 1758) = Anodonta cygnea

Arca rostrum Wood, 1828 = Pleiodon ovatus

Castalia ambigua Lamarck, 1819

There are 35 species taxonomic opinions attributed to this publication.

Hyria corrugata Lamarck, 1819 = Triplodon corrugatus

+ Mya angulata Wood, 1828

Iridina nilotica Cailliaud, 1823 = Mutela dubia

Iridina ovata Swainson, 1823 = Pleiodon ovatus

+ Arca rostrum Wood, 1828

Unio batavus (Maton & Rackett, 1807) = Unio crassus

Unio nodulosa Lamarck, 1819 = Unio pictorum

+ Mya nodosa Gmelin, 1791

Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Unio rotunda Wood in Hanley, 1856 = Obovaria subrotunda