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Publication Montagu (1803): summary
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Complete Citation

Montagu, G. 1803. Testacea Britannica, or Natural History of British Shells, Marine, Land, and Fresh-Water, including the most minute: systematically arranged and Embellished with figures 1-2. 606 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Mactra tenuis Montagu, 1803
Montagu, 1803. Test. Brit. 1-2: 572, pl. 17, fig. 5.

Mactra triangularis Montagu, 1803
Montagu, 1803. Test. Brit. 1-2: 99.

Mya ovalis Montagu, 1803
Philipsson in Retzius, 1788. Diss. Nat.-Hist. Test. Gen.: 17.
Pulteney, 1799. Cat. Birds. Shells. Dorsetshire: 27. [nomen nudum]
Montagu, 1803. Test. Brit. 1-2: 34.
(misidentified reference to Mya ovalis Lightfoot, 1786)

Mya suborbicularis Montagu, 1803
Montagu, 1803. Test. Brit. 1-2: 39.

Mysca solida Turton, 1822
Montagu, 1803. Test. Brit. 1-2: 36 [as ‘Mya solida’].
Turton, 1822. Conch. Ins. Brit.: 246, pl. 16, fig. 2.

Mytilus avonensis Montagu, 1803
Lister, 1685. Conch.: pl. 154, fig. 9?. [pre-linnaean]
Montagu, 1803. Test. Brit. 1-2: 172.
(renamed Anodonta avonica Bourguignat, 1881)

Solen pinna Montagu, 1803
Montagu, 1803. Test. Brit. 1-2: ??.

Tellina flexuosa Montagu, 1803
Montagu, 1803. Test. Brit. 1-2: 72.

Tellina rotundata Montagu, 1803
Montagu, 1803. Test. Brit. 1-2: 71, pl. 2, fig. 3.

Venus spinifera Montagu, 1803
Montagu, 1803. Test. Brit. 1-2: 577.

Taxonomic Opinions

Cardium amnicum Gmel. = Pisidium amnicum
+ Tellina rivalis Maton, 1797

Cardium corneum Lin. = Sphaerium corneum
+ Tellina rivalis Müller, 1774
+ Cardium nux Da Costa, 1778
+ Cardium amnicum Pulteney, 1799

Cardium lacustre Gmel. = Sphaerium lacustre

Mya margaritifera Lin. = Margaritifera margaritifera

Mya ovalis Pult. = Unio pictorum
+ Mysca solida Turton, 1822
+ Mya ovalis Retzius, 1788

Mya ovalis Pult. = Unio tumidus

Mya pictorum Lin. = Unio pictorum

Mytilus anatinus Lin. = Anodonta anatina

Mytilus avonensis = Anodonta cygnea

Mytilus cygneus Lin. = Anodonta cygnea

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