From the shadows of the past: Moricand senior and junior, two 19 th century naturalists from Geneva, with their newly described taxa and molluscan types
Author
Breure, Abraham S. H.
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. & Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
Author
Tardy, Emmanuel
Department of Invertebrates, Muséum d’histoire naturelle, CP 6434, CH- 1211 Genève, Switzerland.
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Revue suisse de Zoologie
2016
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journal article
203549
10.5281/zenodo.46292
59e37f50-05dc-43e2-9954-f33875cbb0c6
0035-418
46292
costulata
,
Unio
(
Monocondylea
),
J. Moricand, 1858: 453
, pl. 15 fig. 1.
Type locality:
Brésil
.
Syntypes
:
MHNG-INVE-91234
(
1
) (
Unionidae
) [
Figs 50-53
].
– Remarks. Moricand junior wrote “j’en ai reçu seulement deux individus”, which is interpreted as two doublets. Only
one specimen
(doublet), however, could be found in the collection. The specimen was labelled as having been revised by Haas in 1930.