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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Publication Valenciennes (1827): summary
publication summary Complete CitationValenciennes, A. 1827. Coquilles fluviatiles bivalves du nouveau-continent, recueilles pendant le voyage de MM. de Humboldt et Bonpland, et décrites par A. Valenciennes. [in] Humboldt & Bonpland, Recueil d’observations de zoologie et d’anatomie compar: faites dans l’ocn atlantique, dans l’intieur du nouveau continent et dans la mer du sud pendant les anns 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 et 1803 2(11-12): 225-237. Available electronically.
Attributed Nominal SpeciesAnodonta glauca Valenciennes, 1827
 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 87. [nomen nudum]
Valenciennes, 1827. Receuil Observ. Zool. 2(11-12): 236, pl. 50, fig. 2.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN-IM-2000-1706A, Acapulco. | |
Anodonta purpurea Valenciennes, 1827
Valenciennes, 1827. Receuil Observ. Zool. 2(11-12): 236, pl. 48 bis, figs. 3a-b.
(homonym of Anodonta purpurea Deshayes, 1826) | |
Unio dombeyana Valenciennes, 1827
Valenciennes, 1827. Receuil Observ. Zool. 2(11-12): 227, pl. 53, figs. 1a-b. | |
Unio hians Valenciennes, 1827
Valenciennes, 1827. Receuil Observ. Zool. 2(11-12): 235, pl. 54, figs. 2a-b. | |
Unio ovata Valenciennes, 1827
Valenciennes, 1827. Receuil Observ. Zool. 2(11-12): 226, pl. 50, figs. 1-1c.
(misidentified reference to Unio ovatus Say, 1817) | |
Unio rostrata Valenciennes, 1827
Valenciennes, 1827. Receuil Observ. Zool. 2(11-12): 233, pl. 53, fig. 3.
(misidentified reference to Unio rostrata Lamarck, 1819) | |
Unio tuberculosus Valenciennes, 1827
Valenciennes, 1827. Receuil Observ. Zool. 2(11-12): 232.
(error for Obliquaria (Rotundaria) tuberculata Rafinesque, 1820) | |
Unio undulata Valenciennes, 1827
Valenciennes, 1827. Receuil Observ. Zool. 2(11-12): 229, pl. 54, figs. 3-3b.
(misidentified reference to Unio undulatus Barnes, 1823) | |
Unio verrucosa Valenciennes, 1827
Valenciennes, 1827. Receuil Observ. Zool. 2(11-12): 231, pl. 53, fig. 2.
(homonym of Unio verrucosus Barnes, 1823) | |
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