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Publication Bourguignat (1864): attributed nominal species
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Bourguignat, J.R. 1864. Malacologie de l’Algérie 2. 380 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodonta embia Bourguignat, 1864
Bourguignat, 1864. Mal. Alg. 2: 297, pl. 25, figs. 1-4; pl. 26, fig. 1.

Anodonta letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1864
Bourguignat, 1864. Mal. Alg. 2: 299, pl. 26, figs. 2-6.

Anodonta numidica Bourguignat, 1864
Bourguignat, 1864. Mal. Alg. 2: 298, pl. 24, figs. 2-6.

Sphaerium ddingoii Prime, 1862
Prime, 1862. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 7: ??.
Bourguignat, 1864. Mal. Alg. 2: 274, pl. 17, figs. 1-9.

Sphaerium ovale Bourguignat, 1864
Bourguignat, 1864. Mal. Alg. 2: ??.
(homonym of Cyclas ovalis Férussac, 1807)

Unio batavus Bourguignat, 1864
Bourguignat, 1864. Mal. Alg. 2: 286, pl. 19, figs. 9-11; pl. 20, figs. 1-4.
(misidentified reference to Mya batava Maton & Rackett, 1807)

Unio letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1864
Bourguignat, 1864. Mal. Alg. 2: 289, pl. 17, fig. 47.

Unio pictorum Bourguignat, 1864
‘Linnaeus’ Bourguignat, 1864. Mal. Alg. 2: 292, pl. 22, fig. 6-11.
(misidentified reference to Mya pictorum Linnaeus, 1758)

Unio rhomboideus Bourguignat, 1864
‘Moquin-Tandon’ Bourguignat, 1864. Mal. Alg. 2: 284, pl. 18.
(reference to Unio rhomboideus Moquin-Tandon, 1855)

Unio moreleti var. crassa Bourguignat, 1864
Bourguignat, 1864. Mal. Alg. 2: 294, pl. 21, figs. 1-7.
(homonym of Unio crassus Retzius, 1788; intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio moreleti Deshayes, 1847)

Unio ravoisieri var. radiata Bourguignat, 1864
Bourguignat, 1864. Mal. Alg. 2: 291, pl. 20, figs. 3-10.
(homonym of Unio (Elliptio) viridis var. radiata Rafinesque, 1820; intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio ravoisieri Deshayes, 1847)

Unio rhomboideus var. minor Bourguignat, 1864
Bourguignat, 1864. Mal. Alg. 2: 286, pl. 18, figs. 1-3.
(misidentified reference to Unio margaritifer var. minor Rossmässler, 1835)

Unio rhomboideus var. radiata Bourguignat, 1864
Bourguignat, 1864. Mal. Alg. 2: 285, pl. 18, figs. 1-10.
(homonym of Unio (Elliptio) viridis var. radiata Rafinesque, 1820)

 
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