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Thu 04 Apr 2024

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 Benson (1856), 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

Benson, W.H. 1856. Amended description of the genus Scaphula, Benson, a freshwater form of the Arcacea; with characters of a new species from Tenasserim. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17: 127-129.

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Attributed Genus Names

Scaphula Benson, 1834
Benson, 1834, Proc. Zool. Soc. London: 91.
Benson, 1836, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 5: 750.
Benson, 1856, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 17: 128.
Type species: Scaphula celox Benson, 1836 (sub. desig. by of Authors, 0) = Scaphula celox

Attributed Species Names

Scaphula celox Benson, 1836
Benson, 1830, Glean. Sci. 2: pl. 7, figs. 2-3.
Benson, 1836, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 5: 750.
Benson, 1856, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 17: 129.

Scaphula pinna Benson, 1856
Benson, 1856, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 17: 128.

Taxonomic Opinions

Scaphula celox Benson

Scaphula pinna n.s.

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