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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Publication Kobelt (1879): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Kobelt, W. 1879. Iconographie der Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten von E.A. Rossmässler 6. 158 pp., pls. 151-178.

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodonta acallia Bourguignat, 1881
‘Potiez et Michaud’ Kobelt, 1879. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 6: 46, pl. 165, figs. 1659 [as ‘coarctata’].
‘J. Ray, in litt.’ Bourguignat, 1881. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 276.

Anodonta coarctata Kobelt, 1879
‘Potiez et Michaud’ Kobelt, 1879. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 6: 46, pl. 165, figs. 1659.
(reference to Anodonta coarctata Potiez & Michaud, 1844)

Unio baudoni Kobelt, 1879
‘Drouet’ Kobelt, 1879. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 6: 43, pl. 163, fig. 1646.
(misidentified reference to Unio baudoni Folin & Bérillon, 1874)

Unio phaseolus Kobelt, 1879
‘Held’ Kobelt, 1879. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 6: 44, pl. 163, fig. 1649.
(homonym of Unio phaseolus Hildreth, 1828)

Unio littoralis var. acarnanicus Kobelt, 1879
Kobelt, 1879. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 6: 40, pl. 161, fig. 1638.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio littoralis Cuvier, 1798)
Type(s): TYPE SMF_4419, See von Vrachori [= Lake Trichonida], Griechenland [Greece].

Taxonomic Opinions

Anodonta coarctata Potiez et Michaud = Anodonta anatina
+ Anodonta parvula Drouët, 1852

Anodonta complanata Ziegler = Pseudanodonta complanata

Anodonta moulinsiana Dupuy = Anodonta anatina
+ Anodonta rostrata Dupuy, 1849

Anodonta normandi Dupuy = Pseudanodonta complanata

Unio baudoni Drouet = Unio pictorum

Unio bosnensis von Möllendorff = Unio nanus

Unio elongatulus var. = Unio elongatulus

Unio jacquemini Dupuy = Unio mancus
+ Unio arcuata Jacquemin, 1835

Unio littoralis var. acarnanicus n. = Potomida acarnanica

Unio littoralis var. pianensis Farines = Potomida littoralis

Unio nanus Lamarck
+ Unio nanus Dupuy, 1852

Unio nanus Lamarck = Unio crassus

Unio phaseolus Held = Unio nanus

Unio requieni var. = Unio mancus

Unio rothi Bourguignat = Potomida semirugata

 
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