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

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This page documents data for Van Beneden (1835), such as genera and species attributed to that publication (including known misspellings, misidentifications, and other unavailable names) as well as taxonomic opinions, if available. Taxonomic opinions refer to uses of genera and species as valid and invalid in that work.

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Publication information

Van Beneden, P.J. 1835. Histoire naturelle et anatomique du Dreissena polymoprha, genre nouveau dans la famille de Mytilacées. Bulletins de l’Académie royale des sciences, des letters et des beaux-arts de Belgique 2: 25-26.

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Attributed Genus Names

Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835
Van Beneden, 1835, Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 25. [nomen nudum]
Van Beneden, 1835, Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 44.
Type species: Mytulus polymorphus Pallas, 1771 () = Dreissena polymorpha

Driessena Van Beneden, 1835
Van Beneden, 1835, Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 25.
Van Beneden, 1835, Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 44.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)

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