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Publication Cantraine (1837): summary
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Complete Citation

Cantraine, F. 1837. Histoire naturelle et anatomie du système nerveux du genre Mytilana. Annales des sciences naturelles, Zoologie 7 (sér. 2): 302-312. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Mytilina Cantraine, 1837
Cantraine, 1837. Ann. des Sci. Nat. 7: 302, 306.
(homonym of Bory de St. Vincent, 1824 [Rotifera])
Type species: Mytulus polymorphus Pallas, 1771 (sub. desig. by Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 456) = Dreissena polymorpha

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