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Publication H. Adams (1866): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Adams, H. 1866. List of land and freshwater shells collected by Mr. E. Bartlett on the Upper Amazons, and the River Ucayali, Eastern Peru, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 440-445. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Bartlettia H. Adams, 1866
H. Adams, 1866. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1866: 444, pl. 38, fig. 7.
Type species: Etheria stefanensis Moricand, 1856 (monotypy) = Bartlettia stefanensis

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodon gigantea H. Adams, 1866
‘Lea’ of Authors.
H. Adams, 1866. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1866: 444 [as ‘Leila gigantea’].
‘Lea’ Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 8, sp. 19, fig. 18.
Sowerby, 1870. Conch. Icon. 17: pl. 36, sp. 152 [as ‘A. trapezialis Lamarck’].
(misidentified reference to Anodonta gigantea Lea, 1838)

Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta (Lamproscapha) ensiformis Spix = Lamproscapha ensiformis

Anodonta (Lamproscapha) wheatleyi Lea = Anodontites elongata

Bartlettia stefanensis Moric.

Castalia cordata Humph.

Leila blainvilliana Lea

Leila gigantea Lea = Pyganodon grandis

Monocondylæa (Plagiodon) isocardioides Lea = Iheringella isocardiodes

Mycetopus soleniformis d’Orb. = Mycetopoda soleniformis

Triquetra corrugata Lam. = Triplodon corrugatus

Triquetra obliqua Schum. = Prisodon obliquus

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