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Publication Heude (1877): attributed nominal species
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Heude, M.P. 1877. Conchyliologie Fluviatile de la Provoince de Nanking (2): pls. 9-16. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio bazini Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 9, fig. 20.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3417, Hou Nan, Chine.

Unio biesianus Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 14, fig. 30.
Type(s): SYNTYPE SMF_3597, Ning-kouo-hien, China.

Unio fibrosus Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 11, figs. 22-22a.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3402, Hou Pai, Chine.

Unio gladiolus Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 16, fig. 35.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3416, Ngan-houe, China.

Unio microstictus Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 12, fig. 24.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3398, Hou Nan, Chine.

Unio modestus Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 14, fig. 29.
(renamed Unio simpularius Heude, 1884; homonym of Unio modestus Küster, 1856)
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3391, Ngan Noue, Chine.

Unio polystictoscriptus Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 13, fig. 26 [as ‘polystico-scriptus’].

Unio polystictus Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 12, fig. 25.
(new name for Unio affinis Heude, 1875)

Unio scriptopolystictus Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 13, fig. 27 [as ‘scripto-polystictus’].

Unio spurius Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 11, fig. 23.
(homonym of Unio spuria Lamarck, 1819)
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_3433, Riviere Siang, Hounan, Chine.

Unio triclavus Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 10, figs. 21-21a.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3389, Hou Nan, China.

Unio triformis Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 16, fig. 34.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3413, Hou nan, Chine.

Unio contortus var. conjungens Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 15, fig. 33.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Triquetra contorta Lea, 1857)

Unio contortus var. muticus Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 15, fig. 32.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Triquetra contorta Lea, 1857)
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3415, Hou Nan, Chine.

Unio pfisteri var. insperatus Heude, 1877
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 14, fig. 28.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio pfisteri Heude, 1874)
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_3426, Chine.

 
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