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Publication Prime (1895): attributed nominal species
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Prime, T. 1895. Catalogue of the species of Corbiculadae in the Collection of Temple Prime, now forming part of the Collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Massachusetts. 62 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Corbicula leviscula Prime, 1895
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 10.
(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)

Corbicula nepeansis Prime, 1895
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 11.
(error for Cyrena nepeanensis Lesson, 1830)

Cyrena carolinensis Hanley, 1843
‘Lamarck’ of Authors.
Hanley, 1843. Illustr. Descr. Cat. Rec. Bivalve Shells: 93.
Philippi, 1848. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 78.
Clessin, 1877. Conch. Cab. 9(3): 108.
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 19.
(error for Cyrena caroliniensis Lamarck, 1818; error for Cyclas caroliniana Bosc, 1801)

Cyrena cypriniformis Prime, 1870
Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 143.
‘Prime’ Clessin, 1877. Conch. Cab. 9(3): 127.
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 26.
(error for Cyrena cyprinaeformis Prime, 1861)

Cyrena mactriformis Prime, 1870
Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 145.
‘Prime’ Clessin, 1879. Conch. Cab. 9(3): 237.
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 29.
(error for Cyrena mactraeformis Prime, 1860)

Cyrena papuana Prime, 1870
“Lesson” Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 146.
“Lesson” Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 26.
(error for Cyrena papua Lesson, 1830)

Limosina viridans Prime, 1895
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 47.
(new name for Sphaerium viridante Prime, 1865)

Pera henslowiana Jenyns, 1832
‘Leach’ of Authors.
Jenyns, 1832. Trans. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 4: 308.
Hanley, 1843. Illustr. Descr. Cat. Rec. Bivalve Shells: 91.
Leach, 1852. Syn. Moll. Gr. Brit.: 291 [as ‘Pera henslowiana’].
Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 169.
Clessin, 1874. Conch. Cab. 9(3): 13.
Clessin, 1874. Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sci. Nat. 13: 149 [as ‘Pisidium henslowianum’].
Servain, 1882. Hist. Moll. Acéph. Francfort: 19 [as ‘Pisidium henslowianum’].
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 60 [as ‘Pisidium henslowianum’].
Dall, 1903. Trans. Wagner Free Inst. 3(6): 1463.
Thiele, 1934. Handb. Syst. Weichtierk. 3: 853 [1297].
Kantor et al., 2010. Cat. Contin. Moll. Russia: 308 [as ‘Tellina henslowiana’].
(error for Tellina henslowana Sheppard, 1825)

Pisidium aequilaterale Prime, 1865
Prime, 1865. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. (145): 63 [as ‘æquilaterale’].
Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 165.
‘Prime’ Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 50 [as ‘æquilaterale’].
‘Prime’ Herrington, 1962. MPUMMZ (118): 31.
(error for Pisidium equilaterale Prime, 1852)

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 novzealandicum Prime, 1895
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 61.
(error for Pisidium novaezelandiae Prime, 1862)

Pisidium septentrionale Prime, 1895
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 61. [nomen nudum]

Pisidium titicacense Prime, 1895
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 55. [nomen nudum]
(homonym of Pisidium titicacense Pilsbry, 1924)

Sphaerium cubanum Prime, 1870
Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 153.
“Prime” Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 48.
(error for Sphaerium cubense Prime, 1865)

Sphaerium minervae Prime, 1895
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 45. [nomen nudum]

 
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