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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Publication Rang (1835): summary
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Complete Citation

Rang, M. 1835. Mémoire sur quelques acéphales d’eua douce du Sénégal, our servir a la malacologie de l’Afrique occidentale. Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, ou Recueil de Mémoires..., etc. 4(3): 297-320, pls. 28-29. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodonta chaiziana Rang, 1835
Rang, 1835. Nouv. Ann. Mus. 4(3): 307, pls. 28-29.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_0217, Senegal.

Anodonta tawaii Rang, 1835
Rang, 1835. Nouv. Ann. Mus. 4(3): 310.

Iridina mutel Rang, 1835
Adanson, 1757. Hist. Nat. Sénégal, Coquillages: 234, pl. 17, fig. 21 [as ‘le mutel’]. [pre-linnaean]
Rang, 1835. Nouv. Ann. Mus. 4(3): 314.

Iridina rostrata Rang, 1835
Rang, 1835. Nouv. Ann. Mus. 4(3): 316.
Potiez & Michaud, 1844. Galérie Moll. at. Mus. Douai 2: 147, pl. 56, fig. 1.
Type(s): TYPE XXX_UNKNOWN, Senegal.

Unio juliani Rang, 1835
Rang, 1835. Nouv. Ann. Mus. 4(3): 306.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_MP_0143, Senegal.
 
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