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

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Publication Wood & Hanley (1856): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Wood, W. & S. Hanley. 1856. Index Testaceologicus; or a Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, arranged according to the Linnean System; with the Latin and English Names, references to authors, and places where found. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Castalia ambigua Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3 [as ‘Mya ambigua’].
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 30, pl. 1, fig. 9.
Wood & Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 200, pl. 1, fig. 9.
(reference to Castalia ambigua Lamarck, 1819)

Mya gravis Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3, pl. 1, sp. 6.
Hanley in Wood & Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 199, pl. 1, fig. 6.

Mya nodulosa Wood, 1815
Wood, 1815. Gen. Conch. 1: 106, pl. 22, figs. 1-2. [in part]
Wood, 1825. Index Testac.: 12, pl. 2, sp. 29.
Wood & Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 16, pl. 2, fig. 29.

Unio obliquus Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3 [as ‘Mya obliqua’].
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 8.
Wood & Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 200, pl. 1, fig. 8.
(misidentified reference to Unio obliqua Lamarck, 1819)

Unio rigidus Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 3 [as ‘Mya rigida’].
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 10.
Wood & Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 200.

 
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