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Publication Lamarck (1804): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Lamarck, J.B. 1804. Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle 5: 430-434. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Galathea Lamarck, 1804
Lamarck, 1804. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 5: 431.
(homonym of Fabricius, 1793; renamed Egeria de Roissy, 1805; renamed Potamophila Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821)
Type species: Galathea radiata Lamarck, 1804 (monotypy) = Galatea paradoxa

Attributed Nominal Species

Galathea radiata Lamarck, 1804
Lamarck, 1804. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 5: 433, pl. 28.
Lamarck, 1818. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 5: 555’ [2nd page 555].

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