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Publication Baird (1863): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Baird, W. 1863. Descriptions of some new species of shells, collected at Vancouver Island and in British Columbia, by J.K. Lord, Esq., naturalist to the British North-American Boundary Commission, in the years 1858-1862. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 66-70. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Sphaerium spokani Baird, 1863
Baird, 1863. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1863: 69.

Sphaerium tumidum Baird, 1863
Baird, 1863. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1863: 69.

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