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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Publication Deshayes (1853): summary
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Complete Citation

Deshayes, G.P. 1853. Veneridæ, Cyprinidæ and Glauconomidæ. Catalogue of the Conchifera or Bivalve Shells in the Collection of the British Museum part 1: 1-216. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Amisoda Deshayes, 1853
Deshayes, 1853. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 261.
(error for Amesoda Rafinesque, 1820)

Anomala Deshayes, 1855
Deshayes, 1853. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 255.
Deshayes, 1855. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 22: 20.
(homonym of v. Block, 1799 [Hymen.]; intro'd as sub-gen. of Cyrena Lamarck, 1818; renamed Egeta Adams & Adams, 1857)
Type species: Cyrena anomala Deshayes, 1855 (tautonomy) = Polymesoda anomala

Cyrenella Deshayes, 1853
Deshayes, 1853. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: ?, pl. 15, fig. 4.
(new name for Cyrenoida de Joannis, 1835)

Cyrenodonta Deshayes, 1853
Deshayes, 1853. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 240 [as ‘Cyrenodontæ’].
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 453.
(error for Cyrenoida de Joannis, 1835)

Gemma Deshayes, 1853
Deshayes, 1853. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 112.

Polymeroda Deshayes, 1853
Deshayes, 1853. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 241.
(error for Polymesoda Rafinesque, 1820)

Attributed Nominal Species

Dosinia altior Deshayes, 1853
Deshayes, 1853. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 25.

Glauconome psammotella Deshayes, 1853
Deshayes, 1853. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: ??.

Glauconome rostralis Deshayes, 1853
Deshayes, 1853. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: ??.

Meretrix lamarckii Deshayes, 1853
Deshayes, 1853. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 39.

 
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