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Publication Baker (1905): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Baker, F.C. 1905. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 15.

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio obliquus Lapham, 1860
‘Lamarck’ of Authors.
Lapham, 1860. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 12: 156.
Baker, 1905. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 15: 256.
Ortmann, 1919. Mem. Carnegie Mus. 8(1): 73. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio obliqua Lamarck, 1819)

Unio orbiculatus Call, 1900
‘Hildreth’ Call, 1900. Ind. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res. (1899): 492.
Baker, 1905. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 15: 253.
Shimek, 1921. Iowa Conserv. 5: 1.
(misidentified reference to Unio orbiculatus Hildreth, 1828)

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