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

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Publication C. Pfeiffer (1825): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Pfeiffer, C. 1825. Naturgesch. Dtsch. Land-Süßw. Moll. 2. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Anodonta pfeifferi Bourguignat, 1881
C. Pfeiffer, 1825. Naturgesch. Dtsch. Land-Süßw. Moll. 2: pl. 3, figs. 1-3 [as ‘A. ventricosa’]. [in part]
Bourguignat, 1881. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 320.

Anodonta ponderosa C. Pfeiffer, 1825
C. Pfeiffer, 1825. Naturgesch. Dtsch. Land-Süßw. Moll. 2: 31, pl. 4, figs. 1-6.

Anodonta ventricosa C. Pfeiffer, 1825
C. Pfeiffer, 1825. Naturgesch. Dtsch. Land-Süßw. Moll. 2: 30, pl. 3, figs. 1-6.
Type(s): TYPE SMF_4979, Teich b. Schönfeld nahe Kassel [Germany].

Anodonta ventricosa C. Pfeiffer, 1825
C. Pfeiffer, 1825. Naturgesch. Dtsch. Land-Süßw. Moll. 2: pl. 3, figs. 1-3. [in part]
(reference to Anodonta ventricosa C. Pfeiffer, 1825)

Unio depressa C. Pfeiffer, 1825
‘Mühl.’ C. Pfeiffer, 1825. Naturgesch. Dtsch. Land-Süßw. Moll. 2: 32, pl. 8, figs. 3-4.
(homonym of Unio depressa Lamarck, 1819; renamed Unio (Alasmodonta) bonellii Férussac, 1827; renamed Alasmodonta compressa Menke, 1830)

Unio sinuata C. Pfeiffer, 1825
C. Pfeiffer, 1825. Naturgesch. Dtsch. Land-Süßw. Moll. 2: ??.
(misidentified reference to Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819)

 
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