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

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Publication Martini & Chemnitz (1788): summary
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Complete Citation

Martini, F.H.W. & J.H. Chemnitz. 1788. Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet geordnet und beschrieben von Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini und unter dessen Aufsicht nach der Natur gezeichnet und mit lebendigen Farben erleuchtet 10. 376 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Mya nodosa Gmelin, 1791
Martini & Chemnitz, 1788. Conchyl. Cab. 10: 346, pl. 170, fig. 1650.
Gmelin, 1791. Syst. Nat. 1(6): 3222, sp. 23.
(renamed Unio nodulosa Lamarck, 1819)

Mya rugosa Gmelin, 1791
Martini & Chemnitz, 1788. Conchyl. Cab. 10: 346, pl. 170, fig. 1649 [as ‘Mya corrugata magna’].
Gmelin, 1791. Syst. Nat. 1(6): 3222, sp. 32.

Tellina guinaica Martini & Chemnitz, 1788
Martini & Chemnitz, 1788. Conchyl. Cab. 10: 348, pl. 170, figs. 1651-1653. [non-binomial]

Unio nodulosa Lamarck, 1819
Martini & Chemnitz, 1788. Conchyl. Cab. 10: pl. 170, fig. 1650.
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 248, fig. 9 [as Unio sp.].
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 78, sp. 35.
(new name for Mya nodosa Gmelin, 1791)

 
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