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

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Publication Ihering (1891): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Ihering, H.v. 1891. Anodonta und Glabaris. Zool. Anzeiger Leipzig. 14(380): 474-484. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Castalina Ihering, 1891
Ihering, 1891. Zool. Anz. Leipzig. 14(380): 477-478.
Type species: Castalina martensi Ihering, 1891 (sub. desig. by Simpson, 1900: 865) = Castalia martensi

Attributed Nominal Species

Castalina martensi Ihering, 1891
Ihering, 1891. Zool. Anz. Leipzig. 14(380): 477.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE SMF_3785, Rio Camaguam, Rio Grande do Sul, Bras.

Castalina nehringi Ihering, 1893
Ihering, 1891. Zool. Anz. Leipzig. 14(380): 477. [nomen nudum]
Ihering, 1893. Arch. Naturg. 59(1): 75, pl. 3, fig. 4.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE SMF_3787, Rio Piracicaba, S. Paulo, Brasilien.

Fossula piracicabana Ihering, 1891
Ihering, 1891. Zool. Anz. Leipzig. 14(380): ??. [nomen nudum]

Glabaris wymanni Ihering, 1891
‘Lea’ Ihering, 1891. Zool. Anz. Leipzig. 14(380): 480.
(error for Anodonta wymanii Lea, 1860)

Monocondylaea fasciculifera Ihering, 1891
‘d’Orb.’ Ihering, 1891. Zool. Anz. Leipzig. 14(380): 482.
(error for Unio (Monocondylaea) fossiculifera d’Orbigny, 1835)
 
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