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Publication Malcolmson (1840): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Malcolmson, J.G. 1840. XXXVIII. — On the Fossils of the Eastern Portion of the Great Basaltic District of India. Transactions of the Geological Society of London 5 (2nd series): 537-575.

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio deccanensis Malcolmson, 1840
J. Sowerby in Malcolmson, 1840. Trans. Geol. Soc. London 5: pl. 47, figs. 4-10.

Unio tumida Malcolmson, 1840
Sowerby in Malcolmson, 1840. Trans. Geol. Soc. London 5: pl. 47, figs. 11-12.
(homonym of Unio tumidus Retzius, 1788; renamed Unio malcolmsoni Hislop, 1860)

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