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Publication Bourguignat (1854): summary
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Complete Citation

Bourguignat, J.R. 1854. Aménités malacologiques XX. Simple note sur les genres Cyrena, Sphærium et Pisidium. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie 6: 671-676.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Cyrenastrum Bourguignat, 1854
Bourguignat, 1854. Rev. Mag. Zool. 6: 668.
Bourguignat, 1854. Rev. Mag. Zool. 6: 674.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777)
Type species: Cyclas solida Normand, 1844 (orig. desig.) = Sphaerium solidum

Pseudocyrena Bourguignat, 1854
Bourguignat, 1854. Rev. Mag. Zool. 6: 673.
Type species: Cyrena maritima d’Orbigny, 1853 = Polymesoda floridana

Sphaeriastrum Bourguignat, 1854
Bourguignat, 1854. Rev. Mag. Zool. 6: 668.
Bourguignat, 1854. Rev. Mag. Zool. 6: 674.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777)
Type species: Cyclas rivicola Lamarck, 1818 = Sphaerium rivicola
 
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