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

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Publication Quoy & Gaimard (1835): summary
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Complete Citation

Quoy, J.R.C. & J.P. Gaimard. 1835. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie 3(2): 367-954. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Corbula zelandica Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
Quoy & Gaimard, 1835. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. 3(2): 511.

Cyrena cyprinoides Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
Quoy & Gaimard, 1835. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. 3(2): 513, pl. 82, figs. 1-3.
(homonym of Cyrena cyprinoides Gray, 1825)

Cyrena oblonga Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
Quoy & Gaimard, 1835. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. 3(2): pl. 82, figs. 6-8.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3525, Vanikoro.

Cyrena vanikorensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
Quoy & Gaimard, 1835. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. 3(2): pl. 82, fig. 4-5.
Type(s): TYPES MNHN_MP_3558, Vanikoro.

Venus aspera Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
Quoy & Gaimard, 1835. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. 3(2): 524, pl. 84, figs. 3-4.
 
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