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Publication Prime (1866): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Prime, T. 1866. Notes on species of the family Corbiculadæ, with figures. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 8(6): 213-237. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

There are 6 available nominal species attributed to this publication (12 total).
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Taxonomic Opinions

Batissa ponderosa Prime = Batissa fortis

Batissa similis Prime

Batissa triquetra Deshayes = Batissa philippinarum

Corbicula africana Deshayes
+ Cyrena gauritziana Krauss, 1848

Corbicula bengalica Deshayes = Corbicula striatella
+ Corbicula bengalensis Deshayes, 1855

Corbicula crassula Mousson = Corbicula fluminalis

Corbicula cumingii Deshayes = Corbicula manilensis
+ Corbicula squalida Deshayes, 1855
+ Corbicula notata Prime, 1861

Corbicula ducalis Prime = Corbicula javanica
+ Corbicula fluminea Philippi, 1846

Corbicula erosa Prime

Corbicula lydigiana Prime

Corbicula occidens Benson = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula pisidiiformis nov. spec. = Corbicula lydigiana

Corbicula quilonensis Benson

Corbicula stimpsoniana nov. spec.

Corbicula triangularis Deshayes = Corbicula fluminea

Corbicula trigona Deshayes = Corbicula striatella

Corbicula tumida Deshayes

Corbicula vulgaris nov. spec. = Corbicula largillierti

Corbicula woodiana Deshayes = Corbicula fluminea
+ Cyrena similis Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833
+ Corbicula grandis Deshayes, 1855
+ Cyrena similis Deshayes, 1855
+ Corbicula primeana Mørch, 1861

Corbicula woodiana Deshayes = Corbicula similis

Cyrena laevis Prime = Geloina nitida

Cyrena mörchiana nov. spec.

Cyrena triangularis Metcalfe

Velorita cochinensis Hanley = Villorita cyprinoides