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Publication Prime (1861): attributed nominal species
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Prime, T. 1861. Descriptions of new species of Cyrena, Corbicula and Sphaerium. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 125-128. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Corbicula brunea Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 126.
(error for Corbicula brunnea Prime, 1864)

Corbicula erosa Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 126.
Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 213, fig. 40.

Corbicula inaequilateralis Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 128.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 80, fig. 30.

Corbicula minor Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 127.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 80, fig. 29.

Corbicula notata Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 127.

Corbicula parvula Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 127.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 76, fig. 25.

Corbicula solidula Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 127.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 81, fig. 31.

Corbicula subradiata Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 127.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 75, fig. 23.

Corbicula violacea Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 127.

Cyrena agrensis Prime, 1861
‘Kurr.’ Prime, 1860. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 12: 268. [nomen nudum]
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 128.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 75, fig. 24.

Cyrena bernardiana Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 126.

Cyrena cyprinaeformis Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 125.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 88, fig. 37.

Cyrena laevis Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 125.
Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 233, fig. 64.

Cyrena regularis Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 126.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 90, fig. 38.

Cyrena siamensis Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 126.
(renamed Cyrena siamica Prime, 1864)

Cyrena siamica Prime, 1864
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 126 [as ‘siamensis’].
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 86, fig. 35.
(new name for Cyrena siamensis Prime, 1861)

Sphaerium vermontanum Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 128.
Prime, 1865. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. (145): 42, fig. 37.
 
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