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Publication Cuvier (1817): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Cuvier. 1817. Règne Animal 2 (1st ed.).

Attributed Nominal Genera

Anodontes Cuvier, 1817
Cuvier, 1798. Tab. Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim.: 1758 [as ‘Anodontites’].
Cuvier, 1817. Règne Animal 2: 472.
(new name for Anodonta Lamarck, 1799)
Type species: Mytilus cygneus Linnaeus, 1758 = Anodonta cygnea

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodonta exotica Cuvier, 1817
‘Lamarck’ Cuvier, 1817. Règne Animal 2: pl. 90, figs. 1-1a.
(reference to Anodonta exotica Lamarck, 1819)

Unio obtusa Cuvier, 1817
‘Desh.’ Cuvier, 1817. Règne Animal 2: pl. 92, pl. 1.

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