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Publication Philippi (1851): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Philippi, R.A. 1851. Abblildungen und Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig gekannter Conchylien 3. 144 pp.

Attributed Nominal Species

Cyrena pullata Philippi, 1851
Philippi, 1851. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 110.

Cyrena rivalis Philippi, 1851
Von dem Busch in Philippi, 1851. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 110, pl. 3, fig. 5.

Cyrena rotundata Philippi, 1851
Philippi, 1851. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 107, pl. 3, fig. 1.
(misidentified reference to Cyrena rotundata Lea, 1834)

Galatea chemnitzii Philippi, 1851
Philippi, 1851. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 124.
(new name for Venus aegyptiaca Chemnitz, 1795)

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