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Publication Martinez et al. (2004): summary
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Complete Citation

Martinez, E.R., M.A. Cabrera & C.A. Lasso. 2004. Moluscos bivalvos (Unionacea y Mutelacea) de la cuenca del río Orinoco, Venezuela. Memoria de la Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales 159-160: 283-303. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodontites schombergianus Frierson, 1927
‘Sowerby’ of Authors.
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 97.
Martinez et al., 2004. Mem. Fund. La Salle Cienc. Nat. 159-160: 294.
Lasso et al., 2009. Biota Colombiana 10(1-2): 72.
(error for Anodon schomburgianus Sowerby, 1870)

Anodontites (Lamproscapha) ensiformes Martinez et al., 2004
‘Spix’ Martinez et al., 2004. Mem. Fund. La Salle Cienc. Nat. 159-160: 293.
(error for Anodon ensiformis Wagner, 1827)

Taxonomic Opinions

Anodontites guanarensis Marshall, 1928

Anodontites pittieri Marshall, 1922 = Anodontites tehuantepecensis

Anodontites schombergianus [sic] Sowerby, 1870 = Anodontites schomburgiana

Anodontites trapesialis Lamarck, 1819

Anodontites trigona (Spix, 1827)

Anodontites (Lamproscapha) ensiformes [sic] (Spix, 1827) = Lamproscapha ensiformis

Castalia ambigua ambigua Lamarck, 1819 = Castalia ambigua

Castalia orinocensis Morrison, 1943

Castalia schombergiana Sowerby, 1869 = Castaliella schombergiana

Diplodon (s.s.) granosus Bruguière, 1792 = Diplodon granosus

Diplodon (s.s.) losadae Haas, 1819 [sic] = Diplodon losadae

Mycetopoda pittieri Marshall, 1919 [sic]

Paxyodon syrmatophora Meuschen, 1781 = Prisodon syrmatophorus

Tamsiella tamsiana (Dunker, 1895) [sic]

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