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Publication Wood (1828): attributed nominal species
publication summary Complete CitationWood, W. 1828. Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or a Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign. 59 pp. Available electronically.
Attributed Nominal SpeciesArca rostrum Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 6, pl. 2, sp. 9.
(new name for Iridina ovata Swainson, 1823) | |
Castalia ambigua Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3 [as ‘Mya ambigua’].
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 30, pl. 1, fig. 9.
Wood & Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 200, pl. 1, fig. 9.
(reference to Castalia ambigua Lamarck, 1819) | |
Iridina elongata Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 7 [as ‘Arca elongata’].
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 41, pl. 2, sp. 10.
(misidentified reference to Iridina elongata G.B. Sowerby, 1821) | |
Mya angulata Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3, pl. 1, fig. 12.
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 40 [as ‘Hyria corrugata’].
(new name for Hyria corrugata Lamarck, 1819) | |
Mya crassa Wood, 1815
Wood, 1815. Gen. Conch. 1: 106, pls. 20-21.
 Wood, 1825. Index Testac.: 12, pl. 2, sp. 28.
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57 [as ‘Unio crassus’]. | |
Mya gravis Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3, pl. 1, sp. 6.
Hanley in Wood & Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 199, pl. 1, fig. 6. | |
Unio cariosus Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 6.
(misidentified reference to Unio cariosus Say, 1817) | |
Unio obliquus Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3 [as ‘Mya obliqua’].
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 8.
Wood & Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 200, pl. 1, fig. 8.
(misidentified reference to Unio obliqua Lamarck, 1819) | |
Unio oblongatus Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 2 [as ‘Mya oblongata’].
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 2.
Wood in Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 199, pl. 1, fig. 2. | |
Unio rigidus Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3 [as ‘Mya rigida’].
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 10.
Wood & Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 200. | |
Unio rotundatus Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57.
(error for Unio rotundus Wood, 1828) | |
Unio rotundus Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 2 [as ‘Mya rotunda’].
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 1 [as ‘Unio rotundatus’].
Wood in Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 199, pl. 1, fig. 1.
(homonym of Diplodon rotundus Wagner, 1827) | |
Unio rugulosus Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3 [as ‘Mya rugulosa’]. [nomen nudum]
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 7. | |
Venus similis Wood, 1828
Gray in Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: pl. 2, fig. 5. | |
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