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Publication Deshayes & Milne Edwards (1839): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Deshayes, G.P. & H. Milne Edwards. 1839. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertebres 2 (3rd ed.). 698 pp.

Attributed Nominal Species

Arca trapezia Deshayes & Milne Edwards, 1839
Deshayes in Deshayes & Milne Edwards, 1839. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 2: 647.

Unio ovatus Deshayes & Milne Edwards, 1839
‘Say’ of Authors.
Deshayes in Deshayes & Milne Edwards, 1839. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 2: 669.
Küster, 1852. Conchyl. Cab. 9(2): 55, pl. 12, fig. 1. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio ovatus Say, 1817)

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