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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

This page documents data for Lesson (1830), 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

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.

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Attributed Species Names

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

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)

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

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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