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 Bean (1836), 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

Bean, W. 1836. Description and figures of Unio distórtus Bean, Cypris concentrica Bean from the Upper Sandstone and Shale of Scarborough; Cypris arcuata Bean, from the Coal Formation of New Castle. Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology and Meteorology 9: 376-377.

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Attributed Species Names

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