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Publication Quoy & Gaimard (1834): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Quoy & Gaimard. 1834. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. 3(1): 369-954. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Cyrena cyprinoides Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
Quoy & Gaimard, 1834. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. 3(1): 513, pl. 82, figs. 1-3.
(homonym of Cyrena cyprinoides Gray, 1825)

Cyrena oblonga Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
Quoy & Gaimard, 1834. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. 3(1): pl. 82, figs. 6-8.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3525, Vanikoro.

Cyrena vanikorensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834
Quoy & Gaimard, 1834. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. 3(1): pl. 82, fig. 4-5.
Type(s): TYPES MNHN_MP_3558, Vanikoro.

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