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Publication Morlet (1889): summary
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Complete Citation

Morlet, L. 1889. Catalogue des Coquilles recueillies, par M. Pavie, dans le Cambodge et le Royaume de Siam, et description d’espèce nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 37: 121-. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Dreissensia Bronn, 1862
‘van Beneden’ of Authors.
Bronn, 1862. Klass. Ord., Weichthiere 3: 352, 360, 364, etc.
Locard, 1883. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lyon 3: 260.
Morlet, 1889. J. de Conch. 37: 162.
Locard, 1893. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 1: 126.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)

Monocondylea Moricand, 1837
Moricand, 1837. Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genève 8(1): 145.
d’Orbigny, 1846. Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale 5: 611.
Gray, 1847. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 15: 196.
Herrmannsen, 1849. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 2: 668.
Gould, 1850. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 3: 293.
Hupé, 1857. [in] Castelnau, Anim. Nouv. Rares d’Amer. Sud: 84.
Petit de la Saussaye, 1865. J. de Conch. 13: 15.
Heude, 1875. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (1): pl. 4.
Deshayes & Jullien, 1876. Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 10: 117.
Morlet, 1889. J. de Conch. 37: 165.
Hoeh et al., 2009. Malacologia 51(2): 310.
Zieritz et al., 2015. J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res. 53(1): 82.
(error for Monocondylaea d’Orbigny, 1835)

Attributed Nominal Species

There are 6 available nominal species attributed to this publication (16 total).
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Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta doliolum Heude = Sinanodonta woodiana

Anodonta elliptica Heude = Sinanodonta elliptica

Anodonta fusca Heude = Sinanodonta pacifica

Anodonta laminata Rochebrune, 1881 = Pilsbryoconcha carinifera

Anodonta lemeslei Morelet, 1875 = Namkongnaia lemeslei

Anodonta linguæformis Morelet, 1875 = Pilsbryoconcha linguaeformis

Anodonta lucida Heude = Sinanodonta lucida

Anodonta sempervivens Deshayes, 1876 = Pilsbryoconcha carinifera

Arconaia delaportei Crosse & Fischer, 1876 = Hyriopsis delaportei

Corbicula bocourti Morelet, 1865

Corbicula erosa Deshayes

Corbicula gravisi Heude = Corbicula fluminea

Corbicula gryphæa Heude = Corbicula fluminea

Corbicula indigotina Heude = Corbicula fluminea

Corbicula moreletiana T. Prim., 1867

Corbicula nevillei [sic] Clessin, 1887 = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula petiti Clessin, ms. = Corbicula moreletiana

Corbicula tonkiniana L. Morlet, 1886 = Corbicula cyreniformis

Cyrena sumatrensis Sowerby, 1830 = Geloina bengalensis

Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1847 = Cristaria plicata

Dreissensia [sic] crosseana L. Morlet = Sinomytilus harmandi

Metaptera delphinus Grüner, 1841 = Hyriopsis bialata

Metaptera myersianus Lea, 1856 = Hyriopsis myersiana

Modiola arcuatula Hanley, 1844 = Arcuatula arcuatula

Modiola siamensis Morelet = Limnoperna fortunei

Monocondylea [sic] cambodgensis [sic] Petit, 1865 = Pseudodon cambodjensis

Novaculina siamensis nov. sp.

Pseudodon cumingii Lea, 1850 = Sundadontina cumingii

Pseudodon harmandi Crosse & Fischer, 1876 = Sundadontina harmandi

Pseudodon mabillei [sic] Rochebrune, 1881 = Sundadontina mabilli

Pseudodon ovalis nov. sp. = Sundadontina ovalis

Pseudodon pierrei Rochebrune, 1881 = Bineurus exilis

Pseudodon thomsoni L. Morlet, 1884 = Songkhlanaia moreleti

Pseudodon tumidus Morelet, 1866 = Sundadontina tumida

Pseudodon vondembuschiana Lea = Pseudodon vondembuschianus

Unio cambodiensis Lea = Lens contradens

Unio crossei Deshayes = Lens micropterus

Unio dautzenbergi nov. sp. = Lens contradens

Unio fischerianus L. Morlet, 1883 = Lens micropterus

Unio gravidus Lea, 1856 = Physunio superbus

Unio ingallsianus Lea, 1852 = Ensidens ingallsianus

Unio inornatus Hanley, ms. = Lens micropterus

Unio micropterus Morelet, 1866 = Lens micropterus

Unio pellis-lacerti Morelet, 1865 = Scabies scobinatus

Unio rusticus Lea, 1856 = Lens contradens
+ Unio paivanus Morelet, 1865

Unio scobinatus Lea, 1856 = Scabies scobinatus
+ Unio mandarinus Morelet, 1864

Unio scobinatus Lea, 1856 = Scabies mandarinus

Unio semidecoratus nov. sp. = Lens contradens

Unio siamensis nov. sp. = Lens micropterus

Unio sutrangensis nov. sp. = Hyriopsis myersiana

 
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