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

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Publication Prime (1863): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Prime, T. 1863. Catalogue of the Species of Corbiculadæ containted in the collection of Temple Prime. 18 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Corbicula angasi Prime, 1864
Prime, 1863. Cat. Corbicul.: 4. [nomen nudum]
Prime, 1864. J. de Conch. 12: 151, pl. 7, fig. 6.

Corbicula laeviuscula Prime, 1863
‘Prime’ of Authors.
Prime, 1863. Cat. Corbicul.: 3.
Crosse & Fischer, 1876. J. de Conch. 24: 334.
Morlet, 1891. J. de Conch. 39: 253.
(error for Corbicula leviuscula Prime, 1864)

Corbicula manillensis Prime, 1860
‘Philippi’ of Authors.
Prime, 1860. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 12: 271.
Prime, 1863. Cat. Corbicul.: 4.
Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 133.
Clessin, 1879. Conch. Cab. 9(3): 187.
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 13.
(error for Cyrena manilensis Philippi, 1844)

Cyrena proxima Prime, 1864
Prime, 1863. Cat. Corbicul.: 6. [nomen nudum]
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 85, fig. 34.

Pisidium novaezelandiae Prime, 1862
Prime, 1862. Proc. Zool. Soc. London: 3.
Prime, 1863. Cat. Corbicul.: 17.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 91, fig. 39 [as ‘nov-zelandicum’].
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 61 [as ‘nov.-zealandicum’].

Pisidium simile Prime, 1863
Prime, 1863. Cat. Corbicul.: 15.
Prime, 1865. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. (145): 69, fig. 74.

Taxonomic Opinions

Corbicula agrensis Prime = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula angasi Prime = Corbicula australis

Corbicula australis Deshayes

Corbicula bengalensis Deshayes = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula brunea Prime

Corbicula convexa Deshayes

Corbicula crassula Prime = Corbicula fluminalis

Corbicula cumingii Deshayes = Corbicula manilensis

Corbicula cuneata Deshayes = Cyanocyclas cuneata

Corbicula ducalis Prime = Corbicula javanica

Corbicula erosa Prime

Corbicula fluminalis Deshayes
+ Cyrena orientalis Lamarck, 1818
+ Corbicula moussoni Deshayes, 1855

Corbicula fluminalis Deshayes = Corbicula fluminea

Corbicula fluminalis Deshayes = Corbicula javanica

Corbicula gracilis Prime = Corbicula javanica

Corbicula laeviuscula [sic] Prime = Corbicula leviuscula

Corbicula largillierti Deshayes
+ Corbicula sulcatina Deshayes, 1855

Corbicula larnaudieri Prime

Corbicula limosa Deshayes = Cyanocyclas limosa
+ Cyclas (Cyrena) variegata d’Orbigny, 1835
+ Corbicula semisulcata Deshayes, 1855

Corbicula lydigiana Prime

Corbicula manillensis [sic] Prime = Corbicula manilensis

Corbicula minor Prime

Corbicula nitens Deshayes

Corbicula notata Prime = Corbicula manilensis

Corbicula occidens Benson = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula paranacensis Deshayes = Cyanocyclas paranacensis

Corbicula parvula Prime = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula prolongata Prime

Corbicula pulchella Deshayes

Corbicula rhomboidea Prime = Corbicula malaccensis

Corbicula rivalis Deshayes

Corbicula rotunda Deshayes = Cyanocyclas rotunda

Corbicula striatella Deshayes

Corbicula subradiata Prime = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula trigona Deshayes = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula tumida Deshayes

Corbicula venustula Prime = Corbicula manilensis

Corbicula violacea Prime = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula woodiana Deshayes = Corbicula fluminea
+ Corbicula primeana Mørch, 1861

 
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