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Taxon: Genus Unio Philipsson, 1788 (mollusc)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation L.M. Philipsson, 1788
Original name, rank & spelling Philipsson, L.M. 1788. Diss. Nova Test. Gen.: 16. ≡
Description/Diagnosis in Latin loc. cit.

Attributes

Name placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology [ICZN, 1999: Art. 80.6] Ref: R.V. Melville & J.D.D. Smith (eds.), 1987. The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, U.K.: 183 ("Philipsson, 1788") (Opinion 495).

Types

Type ofUnioninae (Subfamily) Rafinesque, 1820
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]Unio (Subgenus) Philipsson, 1788 Ref: V.G. Millard, 1997: 360. [inferred]
TypeUnio pictorum (C. Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms

Junior objective synonymLimnaea (Genus) Poli, 1791, nom. illeg. Ref: R.V. Melville & J.D.D. Smith (eds.), 1987: 117 (Opinion 495).
IncludingChondrostes (Genus) Gistl, 1850[1847] Ref: Haas, F. 1935: 858. [implicit]
IncludingNodularia (Genus) Conrad, 1853 Ref: V.G. Millard, 1997: 360.
IncludingNodularidia (Genus) Cockerell, 1901, nom. illeg. Ref: V.G. Millard, 1997: 360.

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

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