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Publication Pulteney (1799): summary
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Complete Citation

Pulteney, R. 1799. Catalogues of the Birds, Shells, and some of the more rare Plants of Dorsetshire, from the new and enlarged edition of Mr. Hutchin’s History of that County.

Attributed Nominal Species

Cardium amnicum Pulteney, 1799
Pulteney, 1799. Cat. Birds. Shells. Dorsetshire: 31.
(misidentified reference to Tellina amnica Müller, 1774)

Mya ovalis Montagu, 1803
Philipsson in Retzius, 1788. Diss. Nat.-Hist. Test. Gen.: 17.
Pulteney, 1799. Cat. Birds. Shells. Dorsetshire: 27. [nomen nudum]
Montagu, 1803. Test. Brit. 1-2: 34.
(misidentified reference to Mya ovalis Lightfoot, 1786)

Mya praetenuis Pulteney, 1799
Pulteney, 1799. Cat. Birds. Shells. Dorsetshire: 28.

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