MUSSELp
 
MUSSELpdb
 
 
Taxonomy
 
 
Geography
 
 
 

Page last updated
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 Wood & Hanley (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.

Search the database pages:

Publication information

Wood, W. & S. Hanley. 1856. Index Testaceologicus; or a Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, arranged according to the Linnean System; with the Latin and English Names, references to authors, and places where found: .

Click here for online access.

Attributed Species Names

Mya nodulosa Wood, 1815
Wood, 1815, Gen. Conch. 1: 106, pl. 22, figs. 1-2. [in part]
Wood, 1825, Index Testac.: 12, pl. 2, sp. 29.
Wood & Hanley, 1856, Index Testac.: 16, pl. 2, fig. 29.

Unio obliquus Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828, Suppl. Index Testac.: 3 [as ‘Mya obliqua’].
Wood, 1828, Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 8.
Wood & Hanley, 1856, Index Testac.: 200, pl. 1, fig. 8.
(misidentified reference to Unio obliqua Lamarck, 1819)

Mya gravis Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828, Suppl. Index Testac.: 3, pl. 1, sp. 6.
Hanley in Wood & Hanley, 1856, Index Testac.: 199, pl. 1, fig. 6.

Castalia ambigua Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828, Suppl. Index Testac.: 3 [as ‘Mya ambigua’].
Wood, 1828, Suppl. Index Testac.: 30, pl. 1, fig. 9.
Wood & Hanley, 1856, Index Testac.: 200, pl. 1, fig. 9.
(reference to Castalia ambigua Lamarck, 1819)

Unio rigidus Wood, 1828
Wood, 1828, Suppl. Index Testac.: 3 [as ‘Mya rigida’].
Wood, 1828, Suppl. Index Testac.: 57, pl. 1, sp. 10.
Wood & Hanley, 1856, Index Testac.: 200.

Page updated: 07:17:37 Thu 04 Apr 2024

 
NSF icon MUSSEL icon
"Making the world a better place, one mollusk at a time."