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Publication Röding (1798): attributed nominal genera
publication summary

Complete Citation

Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. 199 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Amusium Röding, 1798
Rumphius, 1711. Thesaurus imaginum piscium testaceorum : pl. 45, figs. A-B. [pre-linnaean]
Klein, 1753. Tent. Method. Ostrac., etc.: 134. [pre-linnaean]
Röding, 1798. Museum Boltenianum: 165.
(renamed Amussium Herrmannsen, 1846)
Type species: Ostrea pleuronectes Linnaeus, 1758 = Amusium pleuronectes

Chlamys Röding, 1798
Röding, 1798. Museum Boltenianum: 161.

Fragum Röding, 1798
Röding, 1798. Museum Boltenianum: ??.

Laternula Röding, 1798
Röding, 1798. Museum Boltenianum: 155.

Lithophaga Röding, 1798
Röding, 1798. Museum Boltenianum: 156.
Type species: Lithophaga mytuloides Röding, 1798 = Lithophaga lithophaga

Musculus Röding, 1798
Röding, 1798. Museum Boltenianum: 156.

Mya Linnaeus, 1758
Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat. 1: 670, gen. 269.
Linnaeus, 1767. Syst. Nat. 1(2): 1112.
Röding, 1798. Museum Boltenianum: 156.

Paphia Röding, 1798
Röding, 1798. Museum Boltenianum: 175.

Pinctada Röding, 1798
Röding, 1798. Museum Boltenianum: ??.

Trisidos Röding, 1798
Röding, 1798. Museum Boltenianum: ??.

Vulsella Röding, 1798
Röding, 1798. Museum Boltenianum: ??.

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