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Publication Van Beneden (1835): summary
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Complete Citation

Van Beneden, P.J. 1835. Histoire naturelle et anatomique du Dreissena polymoprha, genre nouveau dans la famille de Mytilacées. Bulletins de l’Académie royale des sciences, des letters et des beaux-arts de Belgique 2: 25-26. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835
Van Beneden, 1835. Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 25. [nomen nudum]
Van Beneden, 1835. Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 44.
Type species: Mytulus polymorphus Pallas, 1771 = Dreissena polymorpha

Driessena Van Beneden, 1835
Van Beneden, 1835. Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 25.
Van Beneden, 1835. Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 44.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)

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