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 Baird (1863), 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

Baird, W. 1863. Descriptions of some new species of shells, collected at Vancouver Island and in British Columbia, by J.K. Lord, Esq., naturalist to the British North-American Boundary Commission, in the years 1858-1862. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 66-70.

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Attributed Species Names

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