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Unionidae

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Publication Bosc (1824): summary

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Full Citation

Bosc, L.A.G. 1824. Histoire naturelle des coquilles, contenant leur description, les moeurs des animaux qui les habitent et leurs usages. Avec figures dessinees d'apres nature. 3 (2nd ed.). 287 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio caroliniana Bosc, 1801 = Uniomerus carolinianus

Bosc, 1801. Hist. Nat. Coquilles 3: 142.
Bosc, 1824. Hist. Nat. Coquilles 3: 139, pl. 23, fig. 2.

Anodonta fluviatilis Bosc, 1801 = Pyganodon cataracta

‘Gmelin’ of Authors.
Bosc, 1801. Hist. Nat. Coquilles 3: 146.
Dillwyn, 1817. Descr. Cat. Rec. Shells 1: 316 [’Mytilus fluviatilis’].
Bosc, 1824. Hist. Nat. Coquilles 3: 143.
(misidentified reference to Mytilus fluviatilis Gmelin, 1791)

 
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