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Publication Mousson (1869): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Mousson, A. 1869. Notiz über einige von Ferrn Gustav Wallis aus dem nördlichen Südamerika zurückgebrachte Mollusken. Malakozoologische Blätter 16: 170-189. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Mycetopodus Mousson, 1869
‘d’Orbigny’ Mousson, 1869. Malak. Blatt. 16: 189.
(error for Mycetopoda d’Orbigny, 1835)

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodonta wallisi Mousson, 1869
Mousson, 1869. Malak. Blatt. 16: 188.

Castalia ecarinata Mousson, 1869
Mousson, 1869. Malak. Blatt. 16: 185.
Type(s): TYPE SMF_MUS_ZURICH, Puerto Nacional, Venezuela [Colombia] “from the inland lakes of Puerto-Nuovo (Magdalena)”.

Plagiodon rotundatus Mousson, 1869
Mousson, 1869. Malak. Blatt. 16: 187.
Pfeiffer, 1876. Novit. Conch. 4: 139, pl. 131, figs. 8-9.

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