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Publication Woodward (1871): summary

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Woodward, S.P. 1871. Manual of the Mollusca: A Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells (2nd ed.). 542 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

Alasmodon Thompson, 1820

Thompson, 1820. Ann. Phil. 16: 116.
‘Say’ Sowerby, 1824. Zool. Jour. 1: 54.
‘Say’ Sowerby, 1839. Conch. Man.: 2.
‘Say’ Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 262, 264, 266, 269-274, 278-279, 290, 382.
De Kay, 1843. Zool. New York 5: 196.
‘Say’ Brown, 1844. Ill. Rec. Conch. Gr. Brit. & Ireland: 83.
‘Say’ Woodward, 1871. Man. Moll: 433.
(error for Alasmodonta Say, 1819; renamed Anelasmodon Agassiz, 1846)
Type species: Unio undulata Say, 1817 = Alasmidonta undulata

Pachyodon Agassiz, 1846

‘Stutchb.’ Agassiz, 1846. Nomencl. Zool. Index Univ.: 270.
Woodward, 1871. Man. Moll: 434.
(error for Paxyodon Schumacher, 1817)
Type species: Paxyodon ponderosus Schumacher, 1817 = Prisodon syrmatophorus

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio litoralis Menke, 1828 = Potomida littoralis

‘Lamarck’ of Authors.
Menke, 1828. Syn. Method. Moll.: 64.
Menke, 1830. Syn. Method. Moll.: 107.
Lea, 1836. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 32.
Lea, 1838. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 22.
Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 282.
Lea, 1852. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 34.
Rossmässler, 1854. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 3 (1-2): 37.
Küster, 1855. Conchyl. Cab. 9(2): 128.
specimen image from publicationReeve, 1865. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 22, sp. 98.
Sowerby, 1868. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 86, sp. 461.
Lea, 1870. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 54.
Woodward, 1871. Man. Moll: 433.
Westerlund, 1890. Fauna Paläarct. Binnenconch. 2(7): 52.
(error for Unio littoralis Cuvier, 1798)

Mülleria lobata Adams & Adams, 1857 = Mulleria rivoli

Gray, 1847. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 15: 193. [nomen nudum]
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 511.
Adams & Adams, 1858. Gen. Rec. Moll. 3: pl. 120, figs. 4a-b.
‘Férussac’ Woodward, 1871. Man. Moll: 435, fig. 222 [as ‘Mulleria’].

Taxonomic Opinions

Anodon cygneus = Anodonta cygnea

Ætheria semilunata = Etheria elliptica

Bysso-anodonta [sic] paranensis d’Orbigny = Byssanodonta paranensis

Castalia ambigua

Iridina exotica = Mutela dubia

Iridina ovata = Pleiodon ovatus

Mulleria lobata Fér. = Mulleria rivoli
+ Acostaea guaduasana d’Orbigny, 1851

Mycetopus soleniformis = Mycetopoda soleniformis

Unio litoralis [sic] = Potomida littoralis

Unio plicatus = Cristaria plicata

Unio (Hyria) syrmatophora = Prisodon syrmatophorus

Unio (Monocondylæa) paraguayana = Monocondylaea paraguayana

 
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