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Publication Van Beneden (1838): summary

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Full Citation

Van Beneden, P.J. 1838. Description d’une nouvelle espèce du genre Dreissena. Bulletins de l’Académie royale des sciences, des letters et des beaux-arts de Belgique 4: 41-46. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Dreissena cyanea Van Beneden, 1838 = Mytilopsis africana

Van Beneden, 1838. Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 4: 41, pl. 4, figs. 1-3.

 
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