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Publication Pain & Woodward (1961): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Pain, T. & F.R. Woodward. 1961. A revision of the freshwater mussels of the family Etheriidae. Journal of Conchology 25(1): 2-8.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Levourneaxiana Pain & Woodward, 1961
‘Bourguignat’ Pain & Woodward, 1961. J. of Conch. 25(1): 3.
(error for Letourneuxiana Bourguignat, 1880)

Nilotriciana Pain & Woodward, 1961
‘Bourguignat’ Pain & Woodward, 1961. J. of Conch. 25(1): 3.
(error for Niloticiana Bourguignat, 1880)

Taxonomic Opinions

Acostaea rivoli (Deshayes, 1827) = Mulleria rivoli
+ Acostaea guaduasana d’Orbigny, 1851
+ Mülleria lobata Adams & Adams, 1857
+ Aetheria novogranatensis Schaufuss, 1865
+ Acostaea guadasiana R. Anthony, 1907

Bartlettia stefanensis (Moricand, 1856) = Anodontites tenebricosa
+ Anodonta tenebricosa Lea, 1834
+ Rochanaia gutmansi Morretes, 1941

Bartlettia stefanensis (Moricand, 1856)

Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807

Pseudomulleria dalyi (Smith, E.A., 1898)

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