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Publication Lamarck (1819): attributed nominal species publication summary Complete CitationLamarck. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertebres 6. 343 pp. Available electronically.
Attributed Nominal SpeciesAnodonta exotica Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 87, sp. 12. Type(s): POSSIBLE SYNTYPE MNHN_MPL_0007, de Amérique de Sud acheté de la vente de M. Faujas St. Frond [South America purchased from Mr. Faujas St. Frond] “Paratype” according to Johnson (1952). | |
Anodonta fragilis Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 85, sp. 4. Type(s): TYPES MNHN_MPL_0035, les lacs de Terre-Nueve [Newfoundland]. | |
Anodonta glauca Valenciennes, 1827 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 87. [nomen nudum] Valenciennes, 1827. Receuil Observ. Zool. 2(11-12): 236, pl. 50, fig. 2. Type(s): LECTOTYPE [AS HOLOTYPE] MHNG-MOLL-50591 (by R.I. Johnson, 1953: 90), Acapulco. | |
Anodonta intermedia Lamarck, 1819
Schröter, 1779. Gesch. Flußconch.: pl. 1, figs. 2-3. Martini & Chemnitz, 1785. Conchyl. Cab. 8: 186, pl. 86, fig. 763 [as ‘Mytilus anatinus’].
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 201, fig. 2 [as Anodontites sp.]. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 86, sp. 10. Type(s): POSSIBLE SYNTYPE MNHN_MPL_0004, dans le Loir, près Châteaudun [in the Loir, near Châteaudun]. | |
Anodonta patagonica Lamarck, 1819
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 203 [204], figs. 1a-b [as Anodontites sp.]. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 88, sp. 15. Type(s): SYNTYPES MHNG_MOLL_50589, Rivers of the Río de la Plata and Patagonia. | |
Anodonta pensylvanica Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 86, sp. 9. | |
Anodonta rubens Lamarck, 1819
 Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 201, figs. 1a-b [as Anodontites sp.]. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 85, sp. 6. Type(s): UNKNOWN USNM_86780A, Nile ? Egypt ? | |
Anodonta sinuosa Lamarck, 1819
 Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 203 [204], fig. 2a-b [as Anodontites sp.]. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 87, sp. 14. Type(s): POSSIBLE SYNTYPE MNHN_MPL_0009, [unknown]. | |
Anodonta sulcata Lamarck, 1819
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 202, figs. 1a-b [as Anodontites sp.]. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 85, sp. 3. | |
Anodonta trapesialis Lamarck, 1819 Schröter, 1779. Gesch. Flußconch.: pl. 3, fig. 1. Martini & Chemnitz, 1785. Conchyl. Cab. 8: 185, pl. 86, fig. 762.
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 205, fig. 1a-b [as Anodontites sp.]. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 87, sp. 11. Type(s): LECTOTYPE [AS HOLOTYPE] & PARALECTOTYPE MHNG_MOLL_50581 (by R.I. Johnson, 1953: 94), Unknown. | |
Anodonta uniopsis Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 86, sp. 8. Type(s): POSSIBLE SYNTYPE MNHN_MPL_0040, “Habite... les régions australes? Du voyage de Baudin. Mus. n°.”. | |
Anodontites crispata Bruguière, 1792
Bruguière, 1792. J. de Hist. Nat. 1: 135, pl. 8, figs. 6-7.
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 203 [204], figs. 3a-b [as Anodontites sp.]. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 86, sp. 7. Type(s): TYPE MNHN_MPL_0038, Cayenne ? “Habite... les régions australes? Du voyage de Baudin. Mus. n°. Mon cabinet.” ["Lives... the southern regions? The Baudin voyage. Mus. No.. My cabinet. | |
Cardita sublaevigata Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 26. | |
Cardium lineatum Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 17. | |
Cardium rhomboides Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 18. | |
Castalia ambigua Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 67, sp. 1. Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_IM-2000-27235, Amérique du Sud. | |
Castalia (Naïa) picta Swainson, 1840
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 248, fig. 6. ‘Müller’ Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 78, var. b [as ‘Unio corrugata’]. [in part] Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 379. | |
Chama albida Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 96. | |
Chama asperella Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 95. | |
Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807
Lamarck, 1807. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 401, pls. 29; pl. 31, fig. 1. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 99, sp. 1. (renamed Etheria lamarckii Férussac, 1824) Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_21209, Habite..... la mer des grandes Indes? | |
Etheria semilunata Lamarck, 1807 Lamarck, 1807. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 404, pl. 32, figs. 1-2 [as ‘semi-lunata’]. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 100, sp. 3. (renamed Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824) Type(s): HOLOTYPE MHNG_XXX, Madagascar. | |
Etheria transversa Lamarck, 1807 Lamarck, 1807. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 406, pl. 32, figs. 3-4. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 100, sp. 4. (renamed Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824) Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHG_XXXX, Madagascar. | |
Etheria trigonula Lamarck, 1807
Lamarck, 1807. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 403, pl. 30; pl. 31, fig. 2. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 99, sp. 2. (renamed Etheria lamarckii Férussac, 1824) Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_21210, [no locality available - Africa]. | |
Hyria avicularis Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 82, sp. 1, var. [a]. [in part] Type(s): UNKNOWN MNHN_MPL_0019, La variété [b] vient du cabinet de Lisbonne. Je la crois du Brésil . The [b] variety comes from the cabinet of Lisbon. Brazil I think]. “Figured holotype is in the Geneva Museum (Johnson 1952:65). | |
Hyria avicularis Lamarck, 1819 Lister, 1685. Conch.: pl. 160, fig. 16 ?. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 82, sp. 1, var. [b]. [in part] (misidentified reference to Hyria avicularis Lamarck, 1819) | |
Hyria cordata Menke, 1828 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 82, sp. 1, var. [b]. [in part] Menke, 1828. Syn. Method. Moll.: 63. | |
Hyria corrugata Lamarck, 1819
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 247, figs. 2a-b [as Unio sp.]. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 82, sp. 2. (renamed Hyria rugosa Bory de St. Vincent, 1827; renamed Mya angulata Wood, 1828) Type(s): HOLOTYPE MHNG-MOLL-50578, Unknown. | |
Iridina exotica Lamarck, 1819
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 204, figs. 1a-b [as Anodontites sp.]. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 89, sp. 1. | |
Malleus albus Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: ??. | |
Modiola guyanensis Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: ??. | |
Modiola plicatula Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: ??. | |
Modiola pulex Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: ??. | |
Modiola securis Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 113. | |
Modiola trapesina Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 114. | |
Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: ??. | |
Mytilus hirsuta Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: ??. | |
Pecten irradians Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: ??. | |
Plicatula australis Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: ??. | |
Tridacna crocea Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 106. | |
Trigonia pectinata Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 63. | |
Unio angusta Lamarck, 1819
Lister, 1685. Conch.: pl. 147, fig. 3 ?. [pre-linnaean] Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 80, sp. 42. Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_MPL_0032, Habite..... Mus. n°. | |
Unio anodontina Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 80, sp. 47. (renamed Anadontina turgida Schlüter, 1838) Type(s): HOLOTYPE GENEVAMUSEUM_XXX, [locality unknown]. | |
Unio australis Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 80, sp. 46. Type(s): LECTOTYPE MNHN_MP_0302 (by McMichael & Hiscock, 1958: 442), Nouvelle Hollande. | |
Unio brevialis Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 73, sp. 14. Type(s): LECTOTYPE MNHN_21212 (by Graf & Cummings, 2009: [11]), Habite à l’Isle de France. | |
Unio carinifera Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 74, sp. 16. Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_MPL_0012, Habite la rivière Hudson de l’etat de New-Yorck [Lives in the Hudson River, New York]. | |
Unio cariosa Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 80, sp. 44, var. 2. [in part] (misidentified reference to Unio cariosus Say, 1817) | |
Unio clava Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 74, sp. 18. Type(s): TYPE MNHN_MPL_0015, Amer. Sept. | |
Unio coarctata Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 73, sp. 11. Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_MPL_0005, [Habite la rivière d’Hudson [New York]. | |
Unio corrugata Bruguière, 1797
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 248, fig. 6. ‘Müller’ Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 78, var. b. [in part] (reference to Mya corrugata Müller, 1774) | |
Unio crassidens Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 71, sp. 3, var. b. [in part] Type(s): LECTOTYPE MNHN_MPL_0030, “du lac Erie” . | |
Unio crassidens Lamarck, 1819 Lister, 1685. Conch.: pl. 150, fig. 5. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 71, sp. 3, var. a. [in part] (misidentified reference to Unio crassidens Lamarck, 1819) | |
Unio crassidens Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 71, sp. 3, var. c. [in part] (misidentified reference to Unio crassidens Lamarck, 1819) | |
Unio delodonta Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 77, sp. 29. Type(s): SYNTYPES? USNM_150390, Lake Potero, near Maldonado, Uruguay. | |
Unio depressa Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 79, sp. 38. Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_4088, Nouvelle Hollande. | |
Unio elongata Lamarck, 1819
Pennant, 1777. British Zool. 4: pl. 43, fig. 18. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 70, sp. 2. Type(s): POSSIBLE SYNTYPE MNHN_MPL_0028, Habite dans les rivières de l’Angleterre, et probablement du nord de l’Europe [Lives in the rivers of England and Northern Europe probably]. | |
Unio georgina Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 74, sp. 17. Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_MPL_0013, Habite le lac George. | |
Unio glabrata Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 75, sp. 21. Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_MPL_0021, Habite la rivière de l’Ohio. Michaud. | |
Unio ligamentina Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 72, sp. 7. Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_MPL_0039, rapporte de l’Ohio. | |
Unio littoralis Cuvier, 1798 Schröter, 1779. Gesch. Flußconch.: pl. 2, fig. 3.
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 248, fig. 2 [as Unio sp.]. Cuvier, 1798. Tab. Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim.: 425. Lamarck, 1801. Sys. Anim. sans Vert.: 114. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 76, sp. 25. Type(s): SYNTYPES MHNG_UNKNOWN, France, common in the Seine. | |
Unio luteola Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 79, sp. 40. | |
Unio manca Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 80, sp. 43. Type(s): LECTOTYPE MNHN_MPL_0033, Bourgogne dans le Dree. | |
Unio marginalis Lamarck, 1819
 Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 247, figs. 1a-c [as Unio sp.]. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 79, sp. 41. (renamed Unio marginalis var. typica Hanley & Theobald, 1872) Type(s): POSSIBLE SYNTYPE MNHN_MPL_0031, Habite au Bengale, dans les rizières [sic]... La variété [b] vient de l’ile de Ceylon....Mon cabinet. [Lives in Bengal, in rice [sic]... The [b] variety comes from the island of Ceylon...My cabinet. ]. | |
Unio nana Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 76, sp. 27. | |
Unio nasuta Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 75, sp. 22. (homonym of Unio nasutus Say, 1817) Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MPL_0022, rapporte Lac Erie. | |
Unio naviformis Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 75, sp. 20. Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_MPL_0020, Habite la rivière de l’Ohio. Michaud fils. | |
Unio nodulosa Lamarck, 1819
Martini & Chemnitz, 1788. Conchyl. Cab. 10: pl. 170, fig. 1650.
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 248, fig. 9 [as Unio sp.]. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 78, sp. 35. (new name for Mya nodosa Gmelin, 1791) | |
Unio obliqua Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 72, sp. 8. Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_MPL_0041, Wabash. | |
Unio ovata Lamarck, 1819 ‘Say’ Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 75, sp. 23, var. b. [in part] (misidentified reference to Unio ovatus Say, 1817) | |
Unio ovata Lamarck, 1819 ‘Say’ Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 75, sp. 23, var. [a]. [in part] (reference to Unio ovatus Say, 1817) | |
Unio peruviana Lamarck, 1819
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 248, fig. 7 [as Unio sp.]. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 71, sp. 4. | |
Unio purpurascens Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 73, sp. 12. (new name for Unio purpureus Say, 1817) Type(s): PARATYPE MNHN_MPL_0008, Habite les rivières de l’etat de New-Yorck [Lives in the rivers of the State of New York ]. | |
Unio purpurata Lamarck, 1819 Lister, 1685. Conch.: pl. 155, fig. 10 [?]. [pre-linnaean] Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 71, sp. 6. Type(s): LECTOTYPE [AS HOLOTYPE] MHNG_UNKNOWN (by R.I. Johnson, 1953: 92), Habite... Je la crois des grandes rivières de l’ Afrique. | |
Unio rariplicata Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 71, sp. 5. Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_MPL_0037, Habite la rivière de l’Ohio. Michaud. | |
Unio rarisulcata Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 72, sp. 10. | |
Unio recta Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 74, sp. 19. Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_MPL_0016, Habite le Lac Erié. Michaud. [Lives in Lake Erie. Michaud]. | |
Unio retusa Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 72, sp. 9. Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_MPL_0043, Habite les rivières de la Nouvelle Ecosse. A. Michaud. [Lives in the rivers of Nova Scotia. A. Michaud."]. | |
Unio rhombula Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 74, sp. 15. Type(s): POSSIBLE SYNTYPE MNHN_MPL_0011, La variété [b] vient de la rivière Hudson des Etas-Unis [The [b] variety comes from the Hudson River of the United States]. | |
Unio rostrata Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 77, sp. 31. | |
Unio rotundata Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 75, sp. 24. Type(s): UNKNOWN USNM_85760, Louisiana. | |
Unio semirugata Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 76, sp. 26 [as ‘semi-rugata’]. Type(s): PARATYPES SMF_5156, Aus dem Nahr-el-Kebir [Nahr al-Kabir al-Janoubi] bei Tell Kalat [Talkalakh], Syrien [Homs]. | |
Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819 Lister, 1685. Conch.: pl. 149, fig. 3 [sic]. [pre-linnaean] Knorr, 1757. Vergnügen 2(4): pl. 25, fig. 2. [pre-linnaean] Schröter, 1779. Gesch. Flußconch.: pl. 4, fig. 1.
Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 248, figs. 1a-b [as Unio sp.]. Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 70, sp. 1. Type(s): SYNTYPES MHNG_XXX, the Rhine, the Loire and other rivers of continental Europe. | |
Unio spuria Lamarck, 1819 Schröter, 1783. Einl. Conch. 2: 617, sp. 9, pl. 7, fig. 5. [non-binomial] Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 80, sp. 45. (reference to Mya spuria Gmelin, 1791) | |
Unio suborbiculata Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 81, sp. 48. Type(s): UNKNOWN MNHN_MPL_0034, “Habite... les eaux douces des climats chauds? Cabinet de MM. Daudebard et Faujas.” Lives in fresh water in hot climates? Office of Messrs. Daudebard and Faujas." . | |
Unio sulcidens Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 77, sp. 30. Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_MPL_0029, Connecticut. | |
Unio varicosa Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 78, sp. 36. Type(s): TYPE LOCALITY TYPE_LOCALITY_MP_002, la rivière de Schuglkill [Schuylkill], pres de Philadelphie [Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania]. | |
Unio virginiana Lamarck, 1819 Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 79, sp. 39. | |
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