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Publication Potiez & Michaud (1844): summary

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Full Citation

Potiez & Michaud. 1844. Galérie Moll. at. Mus. Douai 2. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Cyrena arnoudii Potiez & Michaud, 1844 = corbiculid fossil

Potiez & Michaud, 1844. Galérie Moll. at. Mus. Douai 2: 192, pl. 61, figs. 15-16.

Anodonta coarctata Potiez & Michaud, 1844 = Anodonta anatina

Potiez & Michaud, 1844. Galérie Moll. at. Mus. Douai 2: 142, pl. 55, fig. 2.
(homonym of Unio (Anodonta) coarctata Anton, 1839; renamed Anodonta potiezi Bourguignat, 1881)

Anodonta elongata Potiez & Michaud, 1844 = Anodonta cygnea

Potiez & Michaud, 1844. Galérie Moll. at. Mus. Douai 2: 141, pl. 55, fig. 1.
(homonym of Anodonta elongata Holandre, 1836)

Unio obliquus Potiez & Michaud, 1844 = Epioblasma torulosa

‘Lamarck’ Potiez & Michaud, 1844. Galérie Moll. at. Mus. Douai 2: 153, pl. 58, figs. 3-4.
(misidentified reference to Unio obliqua Lamarck, 1819)

Anodonta ovalis Potiez & Michaud, 1844 = Anodonta cygnea

‘Requien’ Potiez & Michaud, 1844. Galérie Moll. at. Mus. Douai 2: 145. [nomen nudum]

Iridina rostrata Rang, 1835 = Mutela rostrata

Rang, 1835. Nouv. Ann. Mus. 4(3): 316.
Potiez & Michaud, 1844. Galérie Moll. at. Mus. Douai 2: 147, pl. 56, fig. 1.
Type(s): TYPE XXX_UNKNOWN, Senegal.

Unio torsus Potiez & Michaud, 1844 = Obovaria retusa

‘Rafinesque’ Potiez & Michaud, 1844. Galérie Moll. at. Mus. Douai 2: 149, pl. 57, figs. 1-2.
(reference to Obovaria torsa Rafinesque, 1820)

Diplasma vitrea Potiez & Michaud, 1844 = Obovaria olivaria

‘Rafinesque, 1831’ Potiez & Michaud, 1844. Galérie Moll. at. Mus. Douai 2: 150, pl. 58, figs. 1-2.
(misidentified reference to Diplasma (Hemisolasma?) vitrea Rafinesque, 1831)

 
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