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Publication Wood (1815): summary
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Complete Citation

Wood, W. 1815. General Conchology: or, a description of shells arranged according to the Linnean system and illustrated with plates drawn and coloured from nature 1. 246 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Mya crassa Wood, 1815
Wood, 1815. Gen. Conch. 1: 106, pls. 20-21.
Wood, 1825. Index Testac.: 12, pl. 2, sp. 28.
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 57 [as ‘Unio crassus’].

Mya nodulosa Wood, 1815
Wood, 1815. Gen. Conch. 1: 106, pl. 22, figs. 1-2. [in part]
Wood, 1825. Index Testac.: 12, pl. 2, sp. 29.
Wood & Hanley, 1856. Index Testac.: 16, pl. 2, fig. 29.

Mya nodulosa Wood, 1815
Wood, 1815. Gen. Conch. 1: 106, pl. 22, figs. 3-4. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Mya nodulosa Wood, 1815)

Unio tennentii Hanley & Theobald, 1872
Wood, 1815. Gen. Conch. 1: 108, pl. 24, figs. 1-3 [as ‘Mya corrugata’].
Hanley & Theobald, 1872. Conch. Indica (3): 22, pl. 45, figs. 7-9.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1907-12-30-56, British India.

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