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

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Publication Westerlund (1902): summary
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Complete Citation

Westerlund, C.A. 1902. Methodus dispositionis Conchyliorum extramarinorum in Regione palaearctica viventium, familias, genera, subgenera et stirpes sistens. Rad Jugoslavenske Akademije Znanosti i Umjetnosti 150: 82-139.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Aetheria Oken, 1818
Oken, 1818. Isis (Oken) 1818: 1117.
Sowerby, 1825. Zool. Jour. 1: 518.
Berthold in Latreille, 1827. unknown publication: 208.
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 38 [as ‘Ætheria].
Menke, 1828. Syn. Method. Moll.: 65.
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: 22.
Agassiz, 1846. Nomencl. Zool. Index Univ.: 10.
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 509.
Woodward, 1871. Man. Moll: 435.
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 53.
Zittel, 1881. Handb. Palaeo. 1: 58.
Westerlund, 1902. Rad. Jugoslav. Akad. 150: 138.
(new name for Etheria Lamarck, 1807)

Euphira Mörch, 1853
‘Gistel’ of Authors.
Mörch, 1853. Cat. Conch. Yoldi 2: 28.
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 506.
Paetel, 1875. Fam. Gatt. Moll.: 79.
Westerlund, 1902. Rad. Jugoslav. Akad. 150: 137.
(error for Eufira Gistl, 1848)

Pseudoanodonta Picaglia, 1893
‘Bourguignat’ of Authors.
Picaglia, 1893. Boll. Soc. Malac. Ital. 18: 117.
Westerlund, 1902. Rad. Jugoslav. Akad. 150: 137.
(error for Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1876)
 
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