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Publication J.F. Schmidt (1840): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Schmidt, J.F. 1840. Einige Beobachtungen ueber die verschiedenen in Krain und den angraenzenden Provinzen vorkommenden Arten der Flussperlen-Muschel (Unio Brug.). Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 13: 430-453. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio carynthiacus Lea, 1836
‘Zeigler’ of Authors.
Lea, 1836. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 27.
Schlüter, 1838. Kurzgef. Syst. Verz. Conch. Samml.: 33.
Lea, 1838. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 20.
J.F. Schmidt, 1840. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 13: 435.
C.B. Adams, 1847. Cat. Gen. Sp. Adams: 14.
Lea, 1852. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 30.
Lea, 1870. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 47.
Schröder, 1885. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 2: 229.
Servain, 1888. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 5: 317.
Locard, 1889. Contr. Faune Malacol. Franc. 13: 141 [35].
Germain, 1904. Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Ouest France 4: 264.
Germain, 1931. Faune de France 22: 728.
(error for Unio carinthiacus Rossmässler, 1836)

Unio gangrenosus J.F. Schmidt, 1840
‘Ziegler’ J.F. Schmidt, 1840. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 13: 436.
J.F. Schmidt, 1847. Conch. Krain: 26.

Unio graniger J.F. Schmidt, 1840
‘Ziegler’ J.F. Schmidt, 1840. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 13: 438.

Unio pruinosus J.F. Schmidt, 1840
J.F. Schmidt, 1840. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 13: 445, pl. 9, fig. 3.

Taxonomic Opinions

Unio amnicus Ziegler = Unio nanus

Unio atrovirens mihi = Unio nanus

Unio badius Kokeil = Unio crassus

Unio carynthiacus [sic] Ziegler = Unio nanus

Unio consentaneus Ziegler = Unio nanus

Unio decurvatus Rossmaessler = Unio nanus

Unio gangrenosus Ziegler = Unio crassus

Unio graniger Ziegler = Unio pictorum

Unio labacensis Pfeiff. = Unio nanus

Unio longirostris Ziegler = Unio pictorum

Unio pictorum Linné

Unio platyrhynchus Rossmaessler = Unio pictorum

Unio pruinosus mihi = Unio nanus

Unio reniformis mihi = Unio nanus

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