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Publication Klein (1753): summary
publication summary Complete CitationKlein, J.T. 1753. Tentamen methodi ostracologicae: sive dispositio naturalis cochlidum et concharum.... 272 pp., 12 pls. Available electronically.
Attributed Nominal GeneraDiconcha Herrmannsen, 1847
Klein, 1753. Tent. Method. Ostrac., etc.: 145. [pre-linnaean]
Herrmannsen, 1847. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: 386.
(intro'd as syn. of Unio Retzius, 1788) Triquetra Lea, 1852
Klein, 1753. Tent. Method. Ostrac., etc.: 135. [pre-linnaean]
Lea, 1852. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 17.
Mörch, 1853. Cat. Conch. Yoldi 2: 43.
(homonym of Blainville, 1828 [Veneridae])
Type species: Prisodon obliquus Schumacher, 1817 (herein) = Prisodon obliquus Attributed Nominal SpeciesDichonca crassissima Klein, 1753
Klein, 1753. Tent. Method. Ostrac., etc.: 128, pl. 10, fig. 47. [pre-linnaean] | |
Mya augusta Klein, 1753
Klein, 1753. Tent. Method. Ostrac., etc.: ??. [pre-linnaean] | |
Mya margaritica Klein, 1753
Klein, 1753. Tent. Method. Ostrac., etc.: ??. [pre-linnaean] | |
Mya margaritifera Gmelin, 1791
Lister, 1678. Hist. Anim. Anglic.: 15, pl. 1, fig. 1. [pre-linnaean]
Lister, 1685. Conch.: pl. 149, fig. 4. [pre-linnaean]
Klein, 1753. Tent. Method. Ostrac., etc.: pl. 10, fig. 47. [pre-linnaean]
Knorr, 1757. Vergnügen 2(4): pl. 25, fig. 2.
Schröter, 1779. Gesch. Flußconch.: pl. 4, fig. 1.
 Martini & Chemnitz, 1782. Conchyl. Cab. 6: 15, pl. 1, fig. 5.
Gmelin, 1791. Syst. Nat. 1(6): 3219, sp. 4.
(misidentified reference to Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Mytilus cygneus Linnaeus, 1758
 Lister, 1678. Hist. Anim. Anglic.: 29, pl. 1, fig. 3. [pre-linnaean]
Lister, 1685. Conch.: pl. 193, fig. 8. [pre-linnaean]
Klein, 1753. Tent. Method. Ostrac., etc.: pl. 9, fig. 26. [pre-linnaean]
Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat. 1: 706, sp. 218.
Linnaeus, 1767. Syst. Nat. 1(2): 1158, sp. 257.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE LS_257, Europe, a l’embouchure des fleuves. | |
Triquetra pectunculus subviridis Klein, 1753
Klein, 1753. Tent. Method. Ostrac., etc.: 135, pl. 9, fig. 36. [pre-linnaean] | |
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