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Publication Rafinesque (1818): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Rafinesque, C.S. 1818. General account of the discoveries made in the zoology of the Western States. American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review 4: 106-107. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Potamila Rafinesque, 1818
Rafinesque, 1818. Amer. Mon. Mag. 4: 107.
Rafinesque, 1820. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 288.
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 24, 35.
(error for Potamilus Rafinesque, 1818)

Truncilla Rafinesque, 1819
Rafinesque, 1818. Amer. Mon. Mag. 4: 107 [nomen nudum].
Rafinesque, 1819. Jour. Phys. Chim. Hist. Nat. 88: 427.
Rafinesque, 1820. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 300.
Rafinesque, 1831. Continuation: 4.
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 24, 29, 45, 76.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Type species: Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820 (sub. desig. by Herrmannsen, 1849: 628) = Truncilla truncata

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