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

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Publication Pallary (1929): summary
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Complete Citation

Pallary. 1929. Première addition à la faune malacologique de la Syrie. Mémoires de l’Institut d’Égypte 12: 1-43. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Margaritana syriaca Pallary, 1929
Pallary, 1929. Mém. Inst. Égypte 12: 34; ‘Abb.’.
Pallary, 1933. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 5: 149. [nomen nudum]
Pallary, 1939. Mém. Inst. Égypte 39: 115.
Type(s): SYNTYPES BMNH_1937-12-30-13052-13053, Le Nahr el Kabir a Tell Kalat [Syria].

Margaritana syriaca var. ponderosa Pallary, 1929
Pallary, 1929. Mém. Inst. Égypte 12: 36.
Pallary, 1939. Mém. Inst. Égypte 39: 116.
(homonym of Margaritana dernaica var. ponderosa Pallary, 1928; intro'd as intra-sp. of Margaritana syriaca Pallary, 1929)
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0077, L’Oued el Kebir a Tell Kalat (Alaouites).

Unio salamboana Pallary, 1929
Pallary, 1929. Mém. Inst. Égypte 12: 37, pl. 3, figs. 21-24.
Pallary, 1933. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 5: 149. [nomen nudum]
Pallary, 1939. Mém. Inst. Égypte 39: 121.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_0070, Nahr el Kebir a Tell el Kalaat (Alaouites).

 
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