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

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Publication Pallary (1898): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Pallary, P. 1898. Deuxième contribution à l’étude de la Faune malacologique du Nord-Ouest de l’Afrique. Journal de Conchyliologie 46 (series 3): 49-154. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Pisidium lumsternianum Bourguignat, 1854
‘Forbes’ Bourguignat, 1854. Rev. Mag. Zool. 6: 93.
Pallary, 1898. J. de Conch. 46: 149.
(error for Pisidium lumstenianum Forbes, 1838)

Sphaerium maroccanum Pallary, 1898
Pallary, 1898. J. de Conch. 46: 150, pl. 9, fig. 8.

Unio littoralis var. bucheti Pallary, 1898
Pallary, 1898. J. de Conch. 46: 151.
Pallary, 1921. J. de Conch. 66: 215 [as ‘Unio rhomboideus var. bucheti’].
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio littoralis Cuvier, 1798)

Taxonomic Opinions

Pisidium casertanum Poli = Euglesa casertana
+ Pisidium lumstenianum Forbes, 1838

Pisidium pusillum Jenyns = Euglesa personata

Sphaerium maroccanum Pallary = Sphaerium lacustre

Unio durieui Deshayes

Unio durieui var. tetuanensis Kob. = Unio durieui

Unio letourneuxi Bourguignat = Unio durieui

Unio littoralis Cuvier = Potomida littoralis
+ Unio rhomboideus Moquin-Tandon, 1855

Unio littoralis var. bucheti = Potomida littoralis

Unio littoralis var. fellmanni = Potomida littoralis

 
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