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

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Publication Cailliaud (1823): summary
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Complete Citation

Cailliaud. 1823. Voyage à Meroe, Atlas 2. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodonta arcuta Cailliaud, 1823
Cailliaud, 1823. Voyage à Meroe, Atlas 2: pl. 61, figs. 4-5.
Cailliaud, 1827. Voyage à Meroe 4: 263.

Anodonta rubens Cailliaud, 1823
Cailliaud, 1823. Voyage à Meroe, Atlas 2: pl. 60, fig. 12.
(reference to Anodonta rubens Lamarck, 1819)

Cyrena consobrina Cailliaud, 1823
Cailliaud, 1823. Voyage à Meroe, Atlas 2: pl. 61, figs. 10-11.

Iridina nilotica Cailliaud, 1823
Cailliaud, 1823. Voyage à Meroe, Atlas 2: pl. 60, fig. 11.
Sowerby, 1824. Zool. Jour. 1: 53, pl. 2.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0280, Bahr Yousef, Egypte.

Spatha caillaudi Martens, 1866
Cailliaud, 1823. Voyage à Meroe, Atlas 2: pl. 60, fig. 12 [as ‘Anodonta rubens’].
Audouin in Savigny, 1827. Icon. Moll. Egypt.: pl. 7, fig. 1 [as ‘Anodonta rubens’].
Martens, 1866. Malak. Blatt. 13: 9.
Martens, 1866. Malak. Blatt. 13: 102 [as ‘cailliaudi’].
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0196, Le Nil.

 
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