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Venus menkei Dunker, 1844 †
1541876 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1541876)
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Dunker, W. (1844). Vorläufige Diagnosen mehrerer neuer Conchylien aus der norddeutschen Liasbildung, die nächstens ausführlicher beschrieben und abgebildet erscheinen werden. <em>Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie.</em> 1(12): 186-188., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16291574
page(s): 187 [details]
page(s): 187 [details]
Note No locality indicated in the original work,...
Type locality No locality indicated in the original work, but Dunker (1846) gave it as "Halberstadt" (Lower Saxony, Germany). Huckriede (1967), who designated a lectotype, specified it as "Halberstadt, Kanonen-Berg". [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Venus menkei Dunker, 1844 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1541876 on 2025-09-11
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Dunker, W. (1844). Vorläufige Diagnosen mehrerer neuer Conchylien aus der norddeutschen Liasbildung, die nächstens ausführlicher beschrieben und abgebildet erscheinen werden. <em>Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie.</em> 1(12): 186-188., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16291574
page(s): 187 [details]
page(s): 187 [details]
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Type locality No locality indicated in the original work, but Dunker (1846) gave it as "Halberstadt" (Lower Saxony, Germany). Huckriede (1967), who designated a lectotype, specified it as "Halberstadt, Kanonen-Berg". [details]
