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Publication Rossmässler (1835): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Rossmässler, E.A. 1835. Iconographie der Land- und Süsswasser- Mollusken, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten 1 (1). 132 pp., pls. 1-5. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Tichogonia Rossmässler, 1835
Rossmässler, 1835. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 1 (1): 112.
Type species: Tichogonia chemnitzii Rossmässler, 1835 (monotypy) = Dreissena polymorpha

Troncilla Menke, 1830
‘Rafinesque’ of Authors.
Menke, 1830. Syn. Method. Moll.: 106.
Rossmässler, 1835. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 1 (1): 116.
(error for Truncilla Rafinesque, 1819)

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodonta complanata Rossmässler, 1835
‘Ziegl.’ Rossmässler, 1835. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 1 (1): 112, pl. 3, fig. 68.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE SMF_10652, Elbe.

Anodonta cygnea Rossmässler, 1835
‘L.’ Rossmässler, 1835. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 1 (1): pl. 3, fig. 67.
(reference to Mytilus cygneus Linnaeus, 1758; renamed Anodonta eucypha Bourguignat, 1881; renamed Anodonta cygnea var. rossmasleri Malzine, 1867)

Anodonta eucypha Bourguignat, 1881
‘L.’ Rossmässler, 1835. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 1 (1): pl. 3, fig. 67 [as ‘A. cygnea’].
Bourguignat, 1881. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 108.

Anodonta klettii Rossmässler, 1835
Rossmässler, 1835. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 1 (1): 112.
Rossmässler, 1836. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 1 (4): 25.

Anodonta cygnea var. rossmasleri Malzine, 1867
‘L.’ Rossmässler, 1835. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 1 (1): pl. 3, fig. 67 [as ‘Anodonta cygnea’].
Malzine, 1867. Essai faun. malac. Belg.: 34.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Mytilus cygneus Linnaeus, 1758)

Tichogonia chemnitzii Rossmässler, 1835
Rossmässler, 1835. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 1 (1): 113, pl. 3, fig. 69.

Unio margaritifera Rossmässler, 1835
Rossmässler, 1835. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 1 (1): pl. 4, fig. 74. [in part]
(reference to Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta complanata Ziegl. = Pseudanodonta complanata
+ Anodonta compressa Menke, 1830
+ Anodonta klettii Rossmässler, 1835

Anodonta cygnea L.
+ Mytilus cygneus Schröter, 1779
+ Anodonta cygnea Draparnaud, 1806

Anodonta cygnea L. = Anodonta anatina

Tichogonia chemnitzii mihi = Dreissena polymorpha

Unio margaritifer Retz. = Margaritifera margaritifera
+ Unio margaritifera Draparnaud, 1801
+ Unio sinuata C. Pfeiffer, 1825
+ Unio elongata Lamarck, 1819

Unio margaritifer Retz. = Pseudunio auricularius

Unio pictorum Lam.
+ Unio pictorum Draparnaud, 1806
+ Unio pictorum Pfeiffer, 1821
+ Unio rostrata Lamarck, 1819

Unio pictorum Lam. = Unio mancus

Unio tumidus Retz.
+ Mysca solida Turton, 1822

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