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Publication Sowerby & Sowerby (1821): summary

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Sowerby, J. & G.B. Sowerby. 1821. The genera of Recent and fossil shells, for the use of students in conchology and geology 2: 262 pls. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Potamophila Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821

Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821. Genera of Shells 2: pl. 66.
(new name for Galathea Lamarck, 1804)
Type species: Galathea radiata Lamarck, 1804 = Galatea paradoxa

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio ambiguus Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821 = Castalia ambigua

‘Lamarck’ Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821. Genera of Shells 2: pl. 85, fig. 2.
(reference to Castalia ambigua Lamarck, 1819)

Unio brevialis Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821 = Obovaria olivaria

‘Lamarck’ Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821. Genera of Shells 2: pl. 86, fig. 4.
(misidentified reference to Unio brevialis Lamarck, 1819)

Iridina elongata Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821 = Mutela dubia

Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821. Genera of Shells 2: 40, pl. 90.
Sowerby, 1839. Conch. Man.: 54, fig. 150.

Unio glabratus Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821 = Alasmidonta undulata

‘Lamarck’ Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821. Genera of Shells 2: pl. 86, fig. 3.
(misidentified reference to Unio glabrata Lamarck, 1819)

Potamophila radiata Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821 = Galatea congica

Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821. Genera of Shells 2: pl. 66.
(misidentified reference to Galathea radiata Lamarck, 1804)

Etheria semilunata Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821 = Etheria elliptica

Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821. Genera of Shells 2: 1, pl. 94.
(reference to Etheria semilunata Lamarck, 1807)

Cyrena sumatrensis Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821 = Geloina bengalensis

Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821. Genera of Shells 2: 30, pl. 65.

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