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Publication Prime (1864): attributed nominal species
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Prime, T. 1864. Notes on species of the family Corbiculadæ, with figures. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 8(3): 57-92. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Batissa solidula Prime, 1862
Prime, 1862. Proc. Zool. Soc. London: 3.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 82, fig. 32.

Corbicula blandiana Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 71, fig. 18.

Corbicula brunnea Prime, 1864
‘in litt. 1860’ Prime, 1860. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 12: 269. [nomen nudum]
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 67, fig. 13.

Corbicula chemnitziana Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 60, fig. 5.

Corbicula crosseana Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 72, fig. 20.

Corbicula difficilis Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. unknown publication: ??. [nomen nudum]
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 62, fig. 7.

Corbicula inaequilateralis Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 128.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 80, fig. 30.

Corbicula japonica Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 68, fig. 15.

Corbicula kirkii Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 66, fig. 12.

Corbicula lamarckiana Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 69, fig. 16.

Corbicula leana Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 68, fig. 14.

Corbicula leviuscula Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 64, fig. 9.

Corbicula linneana Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 70, fig. 17.

Corbicula malaccana Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 65, fig. 10.
(new name for Corbicula malaccensis Deshayes, 1855)

Corbicula mallaccana Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 65, fig. 10.

Corbicula minor Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 127.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 80, fig. 29.

Corbicula muelleriana Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 59, fig. 3 [as ‘mülleriana’].

Corbicula parvula Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 127.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 76, fig. 25.

Corbicula pexata Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 57, fig. 1.

Corbicula primeana Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 58, fig. 2.
(homonym of Corbicula primeana Mørch, 1861; new name for Cyrena (Batissa) primei Morelet, 1862)

Corbicula purpurea Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 77, fig. 26.

Corbicula rhomboidea Prime, 1860
Prime, 1860. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 12: 273.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 66, fig. 11.

Corbicula sayana Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 71, fig. 19.

Corbicula solidula Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 127.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 81, fig. 31.

Corbicula subradiata Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 127.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 75, fig. 23.

Corbicula venustula Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 73, fig. 21.

Cyrena agrensis Prime, 1861
‘Kurr.’ Prime, 1860. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 12: 268. [nomen nudum]
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 128.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 75, fig. 24.

Cyrena bernardiiana Prime, 1864
‘Prime’ Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 83, fig. 33.
(error for Cyrena bernardiana Prime, 1861)

Cyrena cyprinaeformis Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 125.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 88, fig. 37.

Cyrena ponderosa Prime, 1860
Prime, 1860. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 12: 80.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 87, fig. 36.

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

Cyrena regularis Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 126.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 90, fig. 38.

Cyrena siamica Prime, 1864
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 126 [as ‘siamensis’].
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 86, fig. 35.
(new name for Cyrena siamensis Prime, 1861)

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 novzelandicum Prime, 1864
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 91, fig. 39 [as ‘nov-zelandicum’].
Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 171 [as ‘nov.-zelandicum’].
(error for Pisidium novaezelandiae Prime, 1862)
 
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