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

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Publication Sowerby (1868): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Sowerby, G.B. 1868. Genus Galatea. Conchologica Iconica 16: pls. 1-6. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Galatea biangulata Sowerby, 1868
Sowerby, 1868. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 5, fig. 12.

Galatea lubakii Bernardi, 1860
‘Bernardi’ of Authors.
Bernardi, 1860. Monogr. Galatea et Fischeria: pl. 1, figs. 5-6.
Sowerby, 1868. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 6, sp. 13.
Huber, 2010. Compendium of Bivalves: 692.
(error for Galatea lubackii Bernardi, 1860)

Galatea triangularis Sowerby, 1868
Sowerby, 1868. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 6, fig. 14c [15].
(homonym of Galatea bernardii var. triangularis Bernardi, 1860)

Galatea laeta var. versicolor Fischer, 1857
Fischer, 1857. J. de Conch. 5: 344.
Bernardi, 1860. Monogr. Galatea et Fischeria: 29, pl. 1, figs. 7-8.
Sowerby, 1868. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 6, fig. 16c.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Galatea laeta Philippi, 1849)

 
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