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Publication Menke (1843): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Menke, C.T. 1843. Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen.

Attributed Nominal Species

Pisidium semen Menke, 1843
Menke, 1843. Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen: 40.

Unio australis Menke, 1843
‘Lamarck’ Menke, 1843. Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen: 38, sp. 219.
Cotton & Gabriel, 1932. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 44(2): 157 [as ‘Hyridella’]. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio australis Lamarck, 1819)

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