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Publication Prime (1866): attributed nominal species
     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

Batissa ponderosa Prime, 1862
Prime, 1862. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 8: 273.
Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 231, fig. 62.

Batissa similis Prime, 1862
Prime, 1862. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 7: 112.
Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 229, fig. 60.

Corbicula bengalica Prime, 1866
Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 220, fig. 52.
Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 128.
(new name for Corbicula bengalensis Deshayes, 1855)

Corbicula ducalis Prime, 1862
Prime, 1862. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 8: 274.
Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 225, fig. 58.

Corbicula erosa Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 126.
Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 213, fig. 40.

Corbicula lydigiana Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. J. de Conch. 9: 355.
Prime, 1862. J. de Conch. 10: 388, pl. 14, fig. 8.
Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 214, fig. 41.

Corbicula pisidiiformis Prime, 1866
Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 215, fig. 42.

Corbicula quilonensis Prime, 1866
‘Benson, 1860’ Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 224, fig. 56.

Corbicula stimpsoniana Prime, 1866
Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 222, fig. 54.

Corbicula vulgaris Prime, 1866
Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 223, fig. 55.

Cyrena laevis Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 125.
Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 233, fig. 64.

Cyrena moerchiana Prime, 1866
Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 232, fig. 63 [as ‘mörchiana’].

 
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