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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Publication Morelet (1866): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Morelet, A. 1866. Description d’espèces appartenant à la faune malacologique de l’Indo-Chine. Journal de Conchyliologie 14: 62-64. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Monocondylus Morelet, 1866
Morelet, 1866. J. de Conch. 14: 62.
Morelet, 1866. Rev. Mag. Zool. 18: 167.
(new name for Monocondylaea d’Orbigny, 1835)

Attributed Nominal Species

Monocondylaea exilis Morelet, 1866
Morelet, 1866. J. de Conch. 14: 63.
Morelet, 1875. Séries Conch. 4: 340, pl. 17, fig. 1.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_93-2-4-1981, Lac Tonli-Sap Cambodia.

Monocondylus tumidus Morelet, 1866
Morelet, 1866. J. de Conch. 14: 62.
Morelet, 1875. Séries Conch. 4: 337, pl. 16, fig. 1 [as ‘Pseudodon’].
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_93-2-4-1734, Cambodia.

Unio micropterus Morelet, 1866
Morelet, 1866. J. de Conch. 14: 63.
Morelet, 1875. Séries Conch. 4: 349, pl. 15, fig. 6 [7].
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_93-2-4-1596, Cambodia.

Unio venustus Morelet, 1866
Morelet, 1866. J. de Conch. 14: 63.
(homonym of Unio venustus Lea, 1838; renamed Unio oblitus Lea, 1870)
 
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