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Publication Dunker (1858): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Dunker, W. 1858. Einige neue Species der Naiaden. Malakozoologische Blätter 5: 225-229. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodonta carinata Dunker, 1858
Dunker, 1858. Malak. Blatt. 5: 225.
Type(s): SYNTYPES ZMB_108725, Rio Choco, Nueva Grenada.

Anodonta rugifera Dunker, 1858
Dunker, 1858. Malak. Blatt. 5: 225.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) ZMB_108726, Gabon flumen Como.

Monocondylaea tamsiana Dunker, 1858
Dunker, 1858. Malak. Blatt. 5: 226.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE ZMB_101899, Rio Chirgua, 12 mi SW Pto Cabello, Venezuela.

Unio gundlachi Dunker, 1858
Dunker, 1858. Malak. Blatt. 5: 228.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE ZMB_108720, Taco Taco Fluss, Kuba.

Unio hjalmarsoni Dunker, 1858
Dunker, 1858. Malak. Blatt. 5: 227.
Type(s): TYPE ZMB_108719, Rio Chamelicon, on the confines of Guatemala, Honduras.

Unio scamnatus Dunker, 1858
‘Morelet’ Dunker, 1858. Malak. Blatt. 5: 229.
(reference to Unio scamnatus Morelet, 1849)

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