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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 Sowerby (1868), 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

Sowerby, G.B. 1868. Genus Galatea. Conchologica Iconica 16: pls. 1-6.

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Attributed Species Names

Galatea laeta var. versicolor Fischer, 1857
Fischer, 1857, J. de Conch. 5: 344.
Bernardi, 1860, Monogr. Galatea et Fischeria: 29, pl. 1, figs. 7-8.
Sowerby, 1868, Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 6, fig. 16c.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Galatea laeta Philippi, 1849)

Galatea lubakii Bernardi, 1860
‘Bernardi’ of Authors.
Bernardi, 1860, Monogr. Galatea et Fischeria: pl. 1, figs. 5-6.
Sowerby, 1868, Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 6, sp. 13.
Huber, 2010, Compendium of Bivalves: 692.
(error for Galatea lubackii Bernardi, 1860)

Galatea biangulata Sowerby, 1868
Sowerby, 1868, Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 5, fig. 12.

Galatea triangularis Sowerby, 1868
Sowerby, 1868, Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 6, fig. 14c [15].
(homonym of Galatea bernardii var. triangularis Bernardi, 1860)

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