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Publication Prashad (1918): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Prashad, B. 1918. The marsupium and glochidium of some Unionidae and on the Indian species hitherto assigned to the genus Nodularia. Records of the Indian Museum 15: 143-148. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Indonaia Prashad, 1918
Prashad, 1918. Rec. Ind. Mus. 15: 146, text figs. 2-3.
Prashad, 1922. Rec. Ind. Mus. 24: 94.
Type species: Unio caeruleus Lea, 1831 (original designation) = Indonaia caerulea

Parreyssia Kobelt, 1910
‘Conrad’ of Authors.
Kobelt, 1910. Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 32: 85.
Prashad, 1918. Rec. Ind. Mus. 15: 145.
Prashad, 1919. Rec. Ind. Mus. 16: 292.
(error for Parreysia Conrad, 1853)

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