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Publication Lewis (1856): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Lewis, J. 1856. Shellbearing species of Mollusca observed in portions of Herkimer and Otsego counties, New York. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 6(1): 2-4. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Cyclas occidentale Lewis, 1856
‘Prime’ Lewis, 1856. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 6(1): 2.
Prime, 1865. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. (145): 41, fig. 34.
‘Prime’ Lewis, 1872. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 24: 109.
(new name for Cyclas ovalis Prime, 1853)

Cyclas ovata Lewis, 1856
Lewis, 1856. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 6(1): ??. [nomen nudum]
‘Lewis’ Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: ??. [nomen nudum]

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