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

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Publication Petit de la Saussaye (1865): summary
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Complete Citation

Petit de la Saussaye, S. 1865. Note sur le genre Monocondylea de d’Orbigny, et description d’une espèce nouvelle. Journal de Conchyliologie 13: 15-19. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

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

Monocondylea cambodjensis Petit de la Saussaye, 1865
Petit de la Saussaye, 1865. J. de Conch. 13: 16, pl. 4, fig. 4.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_0223, Battambang, Cambodge.

Taxonomic Opinions

Monocondylea cambodjensis Petit = Pseudodon cambodjensis

Monocondylea corrientesensis d’Orbigny = Monocondylaea corrientesensis

Monocondylea cumingii Lea = Sundadontina cumingii

Monocondylea fossiculifera d’Orbigny = Fossula fossiculifera

Monocondylea franciscana Moricand = Monocondylaea franciscana

Monocondylea glauca Gould = Anodontites crispata

Monocondylea guarayana d’Orbigny = Monocondylaea guarayana

Monocondylea minuana d’Orbigny = Monocondylaea minuana

Monocondylea paraguayana d’Orbigny = Monocondylaea paraguayana

Monocondylea parchappii d’Orbigny = Monocondylaea parchappii

Monocondylea planulata Lea = Pseudodon vondembuschianus

Monocondylea rhomboidea Lea = Pseudodontopsis euphratica

Monocondylea tamsiana Dunker = Tamsiella tamsiana

Monocondylea vondenbuschiana Lea = Pseudodon vondembuschianus

Monocondylea wheatleyi Lea = Leguminaia wheatleyi
 
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