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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Etheriidae | Etheria elliptica

nominal species Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824

Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824 = Etheria elliptica

Férussac, 1824. Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. 1: 359.
Ferussac in Sowerby, 1825. Zool. Jour. 1: 522 [as ‘Ætheria’].
(new name for Etheria semilunata Lamarck, 1807; new name for Etheria transversa Lamarck, 1807)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHG_XXXX, Madagascar.

= Etheria elliptica

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 — IUCN, 2011

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

+ Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 — Daget, 1998

+ Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 — Fischer-Piette & Métivier, 1974

+ 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

+ Aetheria semilunata (Lamarck) — Ancey, 1888

= Etheria plombea [sic]Jousseaume, 1886

+ Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) semilunata (Lamarck, 1807) — Bourguignat, 1880

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

+ Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 — Sowerby, 1872

+ Aetheria [sic] semilunata (Lam.) — Mörch, 1853

= Etheria plumbea Ferussac — Hanley, 1843

= Etheria plumbeaJay, 1835

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

 
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