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Publication Lasso et al. (2009): summary
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Complete Citation

Lasso, C.A., R. Martínez-Escarbassiere, J.C. Capelo, M.A. Morales-Betancourt & A. Sánchez-Maya. 2009. Lista de los moluscos (Gastropoda-Bivalvia) dulceacuícolas y estuarinos de la cuenca del Orinoco (Venezuela). Biota Colombiana 10(1-2): 63-74. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodontites infosus Lasso et al., 2009
‘Baker’ Lasso et al., 2009. Biota Colombiana 10(1-2): 72.
(error for Anodontites infossus H.B. Baker, 1930)

Anodontites schombergianus Frierson, 1927
‘Sowerby’ of Authors.
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 97.
Martinez et al., 2004. Mem. Fund. La Salle Cienc. Nat. 159-160: 294.
Lasso et al., 2009. Biota Colombiana 10(1-2): 72.
(error for Anodon schomburgianus Sowerby, 1870)

Congeria lioeblichi Lasso et al., 2009
‘Schütt’ Lasso et al., 2009. Biota Colombiana 10(1-2): 71.
(error for Congeria hoeblichi Schütt, 1991)

Taxonomic Opinions

Anodontites crispatus Bruguiere, 1792 = Anodontites crispata

Anodontites elongatus (Swainson, 1823) = Anodontites elongata

Anodontites ensiformis (Spix, 1827) = Lamproscapha ensiformis

Anodontites guanarensis Marshall, 1927

Anodontites infosus [sic] Baker, 1930 = Anodontites infossa

Anodontites irisans Marshall, 1926 = Anodontites leotaudi

Anodontites pittieri Marshall, 1922

Anodontites schombergianus [sic] Sowerby, 1870 = Anodontites schomburgiana

Anodontites tenebricosus d’Orbigny, 1835 [sic] = Anodontites tenebricosa

Anodontites tortilis (Lea, 1852)

Anodontites trapesialis Lamarck, 1819

Anodontites trapezeus (Spix, 1827) = Anodontites trapezea

Anodontites trigona (Spix, 1827)

Castalia ambigua ambigua Lamarck, 1819 = Castalia ambigua

Castalia multisulcata Hope, 1857 [sic]

Castalia orinocensis Harrison, 1943 [sic]

Castalia schombergiana Sowerby, 1869 = Castaliella schombergiana

Congeria lioeblichi [sic] Schütt, 1991 = Rheodreissena hoeblichi

Corbicula fluminalis (Müller, 1774)

Corbula contracta Say, 1822

Cyanocyclas cuneata (Jonas, 1844)

Diplodon flucki Morrison, 1943 = Diplodon suavidicus

Diplodon granosus Bruguiere, 1792

Diplodon losadae Haas, 1820 [sic]

Eupera bahiensis (Spix, 1827)

Eupera modioliforme Anton, 1837

Eupera simoni Jousseaume, 1889

Lucina muricata (Spengler, 1798) = Lucinisca muricata

Musculista senhousia (Benson, 1842)

Mycetopoda pittieri Marshall, 1919

Mycetopoda soleniformis d’Orbigny, 1835

Paxyodon syrmatophorus Meuschen, 1781 = Prisodon syrmatophorus

Prisodon obliquus (Schumacher, 1817)

Tamsiella tamsiana (Dunker, 1858)

 
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