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Publication Sowerby (1867): attributed nominal species
publication summary

Complete Citation

Sowerby, G.B. 1867. Genus Anodon. Conchologica Iconica 17: pls. 2-19. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodon annulatus Sowerby, 1867
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 18, sp. 67.

Anodon areolatus Sowerby, 1867
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 10, sp. 28.
(homonym of Anodon areolatus Swainson, 1829)

Anodon bengalensis Sowerby, 1867
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 14, sp. 49.
(homonym of Unio bengalensis Lea, 1838)

Anodon blainvilleana Sowerby, 1867
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 6, sp. 12.
(error for Anodonta blainvilliana Lea, 1834; misidentified reference to Anodonta blainvilliana Lea, 1834)

Anodon caillaudii Sowerby, 1867
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 12, sp. 38.
(error for Anodonta cailliaudii Lea, 1860)

Anodon cheeziana Sowerby, 1867
‘Rang’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 15, sp. 52.
(error for Anodonta chaiziana Rang, 1835)
Type(s): FIGURED SPECIMEN BMNH_1964384, Hab._?

Anodon crepera Sowerby, 1867
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 8, sp. 17, fig. 16.
(reference to Anodonta crepera Lea, 1851)

Anodon dactylus Sowerby, 1867
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 19, sp. 75.

Anodon edentulus Sowerby, 1867
‘Lea, MS’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 17, sp. 60.
(misidentified reference to Alasmodonta edentula Say, 1829)

Anodon exoticus Sowerby, 1867
‘Gray’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 16, sp. 57.
(homonym of Anodonta exotica Lamarck, 1819; renamed Leila grayana Frierson, 1922)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1965207, Rio de la Plata.

Anodon gibba Sowerby, 1867
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 6, sp. 13.
(reference to Anodon gibbum Cantor, 1842)

Anodon gigantea H. Adams, 1866
‘Lea’ of Authors.
H. Adams, 1866. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1866: 444 [as ‘Leila gigantea’].
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 8, sp. 19, fig. 18.
Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 36, sp. 152 [as ‘A. trapezialis Lamarck’].
(misidentified reference to Anodonta gigantea Lea, 1838)

Anodon gracilis Sowerby, 1867
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 14, sp. 45.
(misidentified reference to Anodonta gracilis Lea, 1851)

Anodon herculeus Sowerby, 1867
‘Gertsford?’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 3, sp. 7.
(reference to Anodonta (Dispsas) herculea Middendorff, 1848)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1965200, Hab._? [Tago, Japan].

Anodon hians Sowerby, 1867
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 4, sp. 8.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) BMNH_1965205, Hab._?

Anodon hordeum Sowerby, 1867
‘Gould’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 18, sp. 66.
(misidentified reference to Anodon horda Gould, 1855; error for Anodon horda Gould, 1855)

Anodon javona Sowerby, 1867
‘Von Busch’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 11, sp. 33.
Type(s): SYNTYPES BMNH_1965213, Java.

Anodon kelletii Sowerby, 1867
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 19, sp. 71.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1964392, Hab._?

Anodon moretonianus Sowerby, 1867
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 9, sp. 21, fig. 20.
(error for Anodonta mortoniana Lea, 1834; misidentified reference to Anodonta mortoniana Lea, 1834)

Anodon nopalatensis Sowerby, 1867
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 16, sp. 58.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1965189, Rio Nopalata, Mexico.

Anodon pallegoixi Sowerby, 1867
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 8, sp. 18, fig. 17.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1965193, Siam.

Anodon reticulatus Sowerby, 1867
‘Gould’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 10, sp. 27.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1965208, River Amazon.

Anodon rostratus Sowerby, 1867
‘Rokiel’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 2, sp. 4.
(misidentified reference to Anodonta rostrata Rossmässler, 1836; renamed Anodonta laosensis Fischer, 1891)
Type(s): NOMEN NUDUM BMNH_1965214, Lao.

Anodon scriptus Sowerby, 1867
‘Férussac’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 4, sp. 9.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1964370, Hab._?

Anodon simplicidus Sowerby, 1867
‘Parreyss’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 12, sp. 40.

Anodon solenidea Sowerby, 1867
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 18, sp. 65.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1965201, Rio Sao Francisco.

Anodon subcylindracea Sowerby, 1867
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 15, fig. 47a. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Anodonta subcylindracea Lea, 1838)

Anodon subcylindracea Sowerby, 1867
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 14, sp. 47. [in part]
Clessin, 1873. Conchyl. Cab. 9(1): 92, pl. 26, figs. 6-7.
(reference to Anodonta subcylindracea Lea, 1838)

Anodon subreniformis Sowerby, 1867
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 14, sp. 50.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1965192, Lake Nyassa.

Anodon subsinuatus Sowerby, 1867
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 7, sp. 14.

Anodon tabula Sowerby, 1867
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 18, sp. 68.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1965190, Sierra Leone.

Anodon tenebrosa Sowerby, 1867
‘Say’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 13, sp. 43.
(error for Anodonta tenebricosa Lea, 1834)

Anodon triangularis Sowerby, 1867
‘Lanza?’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 15, sp. 56.
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 29, fig. 56b.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE BMNH_1965211, Hab._?

Anodonta laosensis Fischer, 1891
‘Rokiel’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 2, sp. 4 [as ‘Anodon rostratus’].
Fischer, 1891. Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 4: 219.
(new name for Anodon rostratus Sowerby, 1867)

Anodonta pennsylvanica Stark, 1828
‘Lamarck’ of Authors.
Stark, 1828. Elements Nat. Hist. 2: 89.
Lea, 1836. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 50.
Lea, 1838. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 30.
Lea, 1852. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 49.
Conrad, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 263.
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 11, sp. 30.
Lea, 1870. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 79.
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 618.
Ortmann & Walker, 1922. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (112): 40.
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 22 [as ‘Strophitus undulatus-pennsylvanicus’].
Haas, 1969. Das Tierreich 88: 373 [as ‘Strophitus undulatus pennsylvanicus’].
(error for Anodonta pensylvanica Lamarck, 1819)

Anodonta salmonea Sowerby, 1867
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 19, sp. 74.
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 15.
F.C. Baker, 1928. Bull. Wisconsin Geol. Nat. Hist. Survey 70(2): 155.
(error for Anodonta salmonia Lea, 1838)

Anodonta undulata Hildreth, 1828
‘Say’ of Authors.
Hildreth, 1828. Amer. J. Sci. 14: 290.
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 11, sp. 30.
(reference to Anodonta undulata Say, 1817)

Leila grayana Frierson, 1922
‘Gray’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 16, sp. 57.
Frierson, 1922. Nautilus 36: 9.
(new name for Anodon exoticus Sowerby, 1867)

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