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Publication Sowerby (1870): attributed nominal species
publication summary

Complete Citation

Sowerby, G.B. 1870. Monograph of the Genus Anodon. Conchologica Iconica, or Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals 17: pls. 1, 25-37. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodon amazoniensis Sowerby, 1870
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 30, sp. 120.
Simone, 2006. Land. Freshw. Moll. Brazil.: 284.
(error for Anodonta amazonensis Lea, 1860)

Anodon amethystus Sowerby, 1869
Sowerby, 1869. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 24, sp. 95, fig. 95a-b.
Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: index [as ‘wheatleyi’].

Anodon brevis Sowerby, 1870
Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 31, sp. 124.

Anodon cappertoni Sowerby, 1870
‘Konig’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: index.
(error for Anodon clappertoni Koenig, 1826)

Anodon ciconia Sowerby, 1870
‘Gould’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 29, sp. 115, fig. 115a. [in part]
(reference to Anodon ciconia Gould, 1851)

Anodon ciconia Sowerby, 1870
‘Gould’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 29, sp. 115, fig. 115b. [in part]
(reference to Anodon ciconia Gould, 1851)

Anodon cochlearis Sowerby, 1870
Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 33, sp. 135.
Type(s): TYPE UNKNOWN, [locality unknown].

Anodon exilis Sowerby, 1870
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 22, sp. 84.
(misidentified reference to Anodonta exilis Lea, 1838)

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 glabrus Sowerby, 1870
‘Valenciennes’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 25, sp. 97.

Anodon glaucus Sowerby, 1870
‘Valenciennes’ of Authors.
Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 27, sp. 105.
Clessin, 1876. Conchyl. Cab.: 222, pl. 73, fig. 4.
(reference to Anodonta glauca Valenciennes, 1827)

Anodon haltonis Sowerby, 1870
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 36, sp. 147.
(error for Anodonta holtonis Lea, 1857)

Anodon kennerleyi Sowerby, 1870
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 34, sp. 139.
(error for Anodonta kennerlyi Lea, 1860)

Anodon letournenxii Sowerby, 1870
‘Bourguignat’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: index.
(error for Anodonta letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1870)

Anodon montezianus Sowerby, 1870
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 36, sp. 146; index [as ‘montezumus’].
(error for Anodonta montezuma Lea, 1841; reference to Anodonta montezuma Lea, 1841)

Anodon napolensis Sowerby, 1870
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: index.
(error for Anodonta napoensis Lea, 1868)

Anodon parii Sowerby, 1870
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: index.
(error for Anodonta pazii Lea, 1866)

Anodon pholadiformis Sowerby, 1870
Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 27, sp. 106.

Anodon quadriplicatus Sowerby, 1870
Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 28, sp. 110, figs. 110a-b.

Anodon rioplatensis Sowerby, 1870
Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 26, sp. 101 [as ‘Rio-Platensis’].

Anodon schomburgianus Sowerby, 1870
Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 34, sp. 137.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1841-1-26-4, British Guiana.

Anodon trautwinianus Sowerby, 1870
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 33, sp. 134.
(misidentified reference to Anodonta trautwiniana Lea, 1852)

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._?

Anodon tricostatus Sowerby, 1870
Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 25, sp. 98.

Anodon youkamensis Sowerby, 1870
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: index.
(error for Anodonta youkanensis Lea, 1867)

Anodonta linneana Conrad, 1853
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Conrad, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 264.
Hanley, 1856. Illustr. Descr. Cat. Rec. Bivalve Shells: 387.
Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 35, sp. 144.
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 646.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 431.
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 14.
Haas, 1969. Das Tierreich 88: 364.
Parmalee & Bogan, 1998. The Freshwater Mussels of Tennessee: 206.
Watters et al., 2009. Freshw. Mussels OH: 260.
(error for Anodonta linnaeana Lea, 1852)

Anodonta marryattana Conrad, 1853
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Conrad, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 264.
Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 28, sp. 111.
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 642.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 422.
F.C. Baker, 1928. Bull. Wisconsin Geol. Nat. Hist. Survey 70(2): 157.
Haas, 1969. Das Tierreich 88: 365.
(error for Anodonta maryattana Lea, 1840)

Anodonta vignonana Musgrave, 1863
‘Bernardi’ of Authors.
Musgrave, 1863. Phot. Conch. of Conch. Misc. Hanley: pl. 1, fig. 1.
Reeve, 1865. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 25, sp. 120; errata [changed to ‘vignouanus’].
Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 29, sp. 116.
Ancey, 1888. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 5: 74, footnote.
(error for Margaritana vignouana Bernardi, 1859)

Glabaris (s.s.) umbonatus Simpson, 1900
‘Gould’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 29, sp. 115, fig. 115b [as ‘Anodon ciconia’]. [in part]
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 926, footnote.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 1436.

Leila sowerbyana Frierson, 1922
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 33, sp. 134 [as ‘Anodon trautwinianus’].
Frierson, 1922. Nautilus 36: 9.
(homonym of Glabaris trapezea var. sowerbyana Ihering, 1893)

Unio angasi Sowerby, 1867
‘Lea, MS’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 55, sp. 282.
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 32, sp. 127 [as ‘Anodon angasii’].
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_70-10-26-41, Strangways River, Arnheim Land, North Australia.

Unio swinhoei Sowerby, 1866
‘Reeve’ Sowerby, 1866. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 42, sp. 232.
‘H. Adams’ Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 27, sp. 108.
(reference to Unio swinhoei H. Adams, 1866)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1968653, Formosa.

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