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

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Publication Lesson (1830): summary
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Complete Citation

Lesson, R.P. 1830. Voyage autour du monde : exécuté par ordre du roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824, et 1825 2(1). 471 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Cyrena keraudrenia Lesson, 1830
Lesson, 1830. Voy. Coquille 2(1): 429, pl. 11, fig. 3.

Cyrena nepeanensis Lesson, 1830
Lesson, 1830. Voy. Coquille 2(1): 428, pl. 13, fig. 14.

Cyrena papua Lesson, 1830
Lesson, 1830. Voy. Coquille 2(1): 428.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_3518, Nvelle. Guinee.

Unio depressa Lesson, 1830
‘Lamarck’ Lesson, 1830. Voy. Coquille 2(1): 427, pl. 15, figs. 5-5a.
(misidentified reference to Unio depressa Lamarck, 1819)

Unio lessoni Küster, 1855
‘Lamarck’ Lesson, 1830. Voy. Coquille 2(1): 427, pl. 15, figs. 5-5a.
Küster, 1855. Conchyl. Cab. 9(2): 135, pl. 36, fig. 4.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_85723, N Holland [Nepean River, New South Wales, Australia].

 
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