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Publication Heude (1883): attributed nominal species
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Heude, M.P. 1883. Conchyliologie Fluviatile de la Provoince de Nanking (8): pls. 57-65. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Shistodesmus spinosus Simpson, 1900
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 59, fig. 115 [as ‘Unio vestitus’].
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 804.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 941.

Unio abortivus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 63, fig. 124.

Unio apicellatus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 63, fig. 126.

Unio auroreus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 57, fig. 106.

Unio cornuumlunae Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 57, fig. 105 [as ’cornuum lunae’].
Type(s): POSSIBLE SYNTYPE USNM_472362, Kouang té tcheou, China.

Unio distortus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 62, figs. 122a-b.

Unio mediastinus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 63, fig. 123.

Unio moreletianus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 60, fig. 117.

Unio murinus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 62, fig. 121.

Unio paschalis Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 58, fig. 110.
Type(s): SYNTYPE SMF_5191, China.

Unio pinchonianus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 63, fig. 125.

Unio retiarius Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 57, fig. 107.

Unio retortus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 57, fig. 109.

Unio tientsinensis Heude, 1883
‘Crosse & Debeaux’ Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 60, fig. 118.

Unio trisulcatus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 57, fig. 108.

Unio verruculosus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 58, fig. 111.

Unio vestitus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 58, fig. 112.

Unio vestitus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 59, fig. 115.

Unio zonatus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 61, fig. 120.

Unio sinensis [sic] var. laevis Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 59, fig. 116 [as ‘lævis’].

Unio sinensis [sic] var. squammosus Heude, 1883
Heude, 1883. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (8): pl. 58, fig. 113.

 
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