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

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Publication Bourguignat (1876): summary
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Complete Citation

Bourguignat, J.R. 1876. Descriptions de deux nouveaux genres Algériens, suivies d’une classification des familles et des gentres de Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. Bull. Soc. Sci. Phys. Nat. Toulouse 3: 49-101.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Jolya Bourguignat, 1876
Bourguignat, 1876. Bull. Soc. Sci. Phys. Nat. Toulouse 3: 53.
Type species: Jolya letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1876 = Jolya letourneuxi

Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1876
Bourguignat, 1876. Bull. Soc. Sci. Phys. Nat. Toulouse 3: 99.
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 11, 3.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Pseudodon Gould, 1844)
Type species: Anodonta complanata Rossmässler, 1835 (sub. desig. by Westerlund, 1902: 137) = Pseudanodonta complanata

Attributed Nominal Species

Jolya letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1876
Bourguignat, 1876. Bull. Soc. Sci. Phys. Nat. Toulouse 3: ??.

Leguminaia mardiniensis Bourguignat, 1876
Bourguignat, 1876. Bull. Soc. Sci. Phys. Nat. Toulouse 3: 98.
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 3.

Leguminaia (s.s.) sauley Bourguignat, 1876
Bourguignat, 1876. Bull. Soc. Sci. Phys. Nat. Toulouse 3: 98.

Pseudanodonta ligerica Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1876. Bull. Soc. Sci. Phys. Nat. Toulouse 3: 99 [as ‘Pseudodon (Pseudanodonta) ligerica’]. [nomen nudum]
‘Servain in litt.’ Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 16, 50.

Taxonomic Opinions

Leguminaia (s.s.) mardiniensis [sic] = Leguminaia wheatleyi

Leguminaia (s.s.) michoni = Leguminaia saulcyi

Leguminaia (s.s.) sauleyi [sic] = Leguminaia saulcyi

Leguminaia (s.s.) tripolitana = Leguminaia saulcyi

Leguminaia (Uniopsis) bonellii = Microcondylaea bonellii

Margaritana margaritifera = Margaritifera margaritifera

Margaritana tristis = Margaritifera margaritifera

Pseudodon (Pseudanodonta) berlani Bourguignat = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudodon (Pseudanodonta) complanata = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudodon (Pseudanodonta) elongata = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudodon (Pseudanodonta) gratelupeana = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudodon (Pseudanodonta) klettii = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudodon (Pseudanodonta) ligerica = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudodon (Pseudanodonta) penchinati Bourguignat = Pseudanodonta complanata

 
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