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Cyrena rouyi Locard, 1893 †
1505093 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1505093)
unaccepted > unjustified emendation
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Locard, A. (1893). Monographie des mollusques tertiaires terrestres et fluviatiles de la Suisse. Deuxième partie. <em>Mémoires de la Société Paléontologique Suisse.</em> 19, 131-275.
page(s): 253, pl. 12, fig. 16 [details]
page(s): 253, pl. 12, fig. 16 [details]
Status Locard (1893) listed the original spelling of d'Orbigny (1850) but still changed the name to rouyi. According to ICZN Art....
Status Locard (1893) listed the original spelling of d'Orbigny (1850) but still changed the name to rouyi. According to ICZN Art. 33.2.1 this qualifies as an unjustified emendation. Cyrena rouyi was before mentioned already by Mayer-Eymar (1887), but he did not list the original spelling or discuss it in anyway, making this an incorrect subsequent spelling. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cyrena rouyi Locard, 1893 †. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1505093 on 2025-09-10
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Locard, A. (1893). Monographie des mollusques tertiaires terrestres et fluviatiles de la Suisse. Deuxième partie. <em>Mémoires de la Société Paléontologique Suisse.</em> 19, 131-275.
page(s): 253, pl. 12, fig. 16 [details]
additional source Mayer-Eymar, K. (1887). Systematisches Verzeichniss der Kreide- und Tertiär-Versteinerungen der Umgegend von Thun nebst Beschreibung der neuen Arten. <em>Beiträge zur geologischen Karte der Schweiz, Beilage.</em> 24(2): i-xxviii + 1-128.
page(s): 81, pl. 4, fig. 13 [details]
page(s): 253, pl. 12, fig. 16 [details]
additional source Mayer-Eymar, K. (1887). Systematisches Verzeichniss der Kreide- und Tertiär-Versteinerungen der Umgegend von Thun nebst Beschreibung der neuen Arten. <em>Beiträge zur geologischen Karte der Schweiz, Beilage.</em> 24(2): i-xxviii + 1-128.
page(s): 81, pl. 4, fig. 13 [details]
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Status Locard (1893) listed the original spelling of d'Orbigny (1850) but still changed the name to rouyi. According to ICZN Art. 33.2.1 this qualifies as an unjustified emendation. Cyrena rouyi was before mentioned already by Mayer-Eymar (1887), but he did not list the original spelling or discuss it in anyway, making this an incorrect subsequent spelling. [details]
