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Publication Stabile (1859): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Stabile, G. 1859. Prospetto sistematico-statistico dei molluschi terrestri e fluviali viventi nel territorio di Lugano. Atti della Società geologica residente in Milano 1: 127-189. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Limnium Agassiz, 1846
‘Oken’ Agassiz, 1846. Nomencl. Zool. Index Univ.: 211.
‘Oken’ Stabile, 1859. Atti soc. geol. Milano 1: 170.
‘Oken’ Pallary, 1939. Mém. Inst. Égypte 39: 120.
(error for Lymnium Oken, 1815)

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodonta atrovirens Stabile, 1859
‘Shuttleworth’ Stabile, 1859. Atti soc. geol. Milano 1: 169, 182, sp. 43.

Anodonta atrovirens mut. attenuata Stabile, 1859
Stabile, 1859. Atti soc. geol. Milano 1: 169, 183, sp. 45.

Anodonta atrovirens mut. normalis Stabile, 1859
Stabile, 1859. Atti soc. geol. Milano 1: 169, 183, sp. 44.

Anodonta piscinalis var. anatinella Stabile, 1859
Stabile, 1859. Atti soc. geol. Milano 1: 169, 183, sp. 46.

Anodonta piscinalis var. rostrata anom. contracta Stabile, 1859
Stabile, 1859. Atti soc. geol. Milano 1: 169, 183, sp. 47. [infra-subsp.]

Unio requienii var. blauneri Stabile, 1859
‘Shuttleworth’ Stabile, 1859. Atti soc. geol. Milano 1: 170, 185, sp. 51.

Unio requienii var. oriliensis Stabile, 1859
Stabile, 1859. Atti soc. geol. Milano 1: 170, 184, sp. 50.

Unio requienii var. vulgaris Stabile, 1859
Stabile, 1859. Atti soc. geol. Milano 1: 170, 184, sp. 49.

Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta atrovirens Shuttleworth = Anodonta cygnea

Anodonta atrovirens mut. attenuata mihi = Anodonta cygnea

Anodonta atrovirens mut. normalis mihi = Anodonta cygnea

Anodonta piscinalis Nilsson, 1822 = Anodonta anatina

Anodonta piscinalis var. anatinella mihi = Anodonta cygnea
+ Anodonta anatina Draparnaud, 1806
+ Anodonta glabra Stabile, 1845

Anodonta piscinalis var. anatinella mihi = Anodonta anatina

Anodonta piscinalis var. rostrata Kokeil in Rossmässler = Anodonta anatina

Anodonta piscinalis var. rostrata anom. contracta mihi = Anodonta cygnea

Unio (Limnium) [sic] requienii Michaud, 1831 = Unio mancus

Unio (Limnium) [sic] requienii var. blauneri Shuttleworth = Unio elongatulus

Unio (Limnium) [sic] requienii var. oriliensis mihi = Unio mancus
+ Unio tumidus Stabile, 1845

Unio (Limnium) [sic] requienii var. oriliensis mihi = Unio elongatulus

Unio (Limnium) [sic] requienii var. vulgaris mihi = Unio mancus
+ Unio longirostris Stabile, 1845
+ Unio glaucinus Stabile, 1845

Unio (Limnium) [sic] requienii var. vulgaris mihi = Unio elongatulus

Unio (Limnium) [sic] requienii var. vulgaris mihi = Unio crassus

Unio (Margaritana) bonellii Charpentier = Microcondylaea bonellii
+ Unio depressa C. Pfeiffer, 1825
+ Alasmodonta compressa Menke, 1830

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