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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Publication Ménétries (1832): summary
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Complete Citation

Ménétries, E. 1832. Catalogue Raisonné des Objets de Zoologie Recueillis dans un voyage au Caucase et Jusqu’aux Frontières Actuelles de la Perse. 271 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Clycymeris Ménétries, 1832
Ménétries, 1832. Cat. rais. obj. zool. Caucase: 271.
(error for Glycimeris Lamarck, 1799)

Hypanis Ménétries, 1832
Ménétries, 1832. Cat. rais. obj. zool. Caucase: 271.
Krynicki, 1837. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 10(2): 63.
Eichwald, 1838. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 11: 169.
Type species: Glycymeris plicata Eichwald, 1829 = Hypanis plicata

Attributed Nominal Species

Hypanis plicata Ménétries, 1832
‘Pander.’ Ménétries, 1832. Cat. rais. obj. zool. Caucase: 271.
(misidentified reference to Glycymeris plicata Eichwald, 1829)

Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta cygnea Lam. Pfieff.

Cardium rusticum Linn., Chemn.

Clycymeris [sic] laeviuscula Eichw. = Adacna laeviuscula

Hypanis plicata Pander
+ Glycymeris plicata Eichwald, 1829

Hypanis plicata Pander = Adacna vitrea

Mytilus polymorphus Pall., Eichw. = Dreissena polymorpha

Unio rostrata Lam. Pfieff. = Unio pictorum
 
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