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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Etheriidae | Etheria elliptica

nominal species Etheria transversa Lamarck, 1807

Etheria transversa Lamarck, 1807 = Etheria elliptica

Lamarck, 1807. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 406, pl. 32, figs. 3-4.
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 100, sp. 4.
(renamed Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHG_XXXX, Madagascar.

= Etheria elliptica

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 — IUCN, 2011

+ Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 — Graf & Cummings, 2009

+ Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 — Graf & Cummings, 2006

+ Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 — Daget, 1998

+ Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 — Haas, 1969

+ Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 — Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

+ Aetheria [sic] elliptica (Lamarck, 1807) — Germain, 1925

+ Aetheria [sic] elliptica de Lamarck, 1807 — Germain, 1907

+ Aetheria elliptica s.s. (Lamarck, 1807) — Martens, 1897

= Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) transversa (Lamarck, 1807) — Bourguignat, 1880

+ Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 — Sowerby, 1872

+ Etheria plumbea Ferussac — Hanley, 1843

= Etheria transversa Lamk. — Deshayes, 1830

+ Ætheria [sic] plumbea (Ferussac) — Sowerby, 1825

= Etheria transversaLamarck, 1819

= Etheria transversaLamarck, 1807

 
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