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Merilii;era IIeld 1837 in Isis p. 917. 



Etym. merda; gero. 



Subgenus Bulimi. Typus: Bul. obscurus Miill. 

 Meretrix Lamck. olim 1799. Prodr. * etlSOl. Syst. p. 122. 

 Etym. Nom. appell. 

 A Venere disjunctum genus. Typus: Venus meretrix 



Linn. 

 CuviER 1800. Anat. comp. * — subgenus Veneris. 

 Blainv. 182.3. Mal. p. 556. — sectio Veneris, sensu 



strictiore. 

 Rang 1829. Man. p. 317. — scctio subgeneris Cy- 



thereae. 

 = Cytherea Lamck. 

 IVIeroe ScuuM. 18J7. Essai p. 149. 



Etym. MtQOT^ , nom. propr. '^) 



A Venere segregatuni genus, Typus: Venus Meroe 



Linn. 

 Adoptat ScuMiDT Mus. Goth. ined. Moller 1832r in 



Isis p. 135. — in Nymphaceis. 

 Synon. Tellina (sp.) List. 



Chama (sj).) D'Argenv. Adans. 



Venus (sp.) Linn. etc. 



Donax (sp.) Brug. Lamck. 



Paphia (sp.) Bolten. 



Cuneus Miihlf. 



Cytherea (sp.) G. B. Sow. Desh. Anton. Sow.jun. 

 JTIerria Gray 1839 in Beechey's Voy. Zool. p. 137. 

 Etym. ? 



Novum genus ex typo Sigareti cancellati Lamck. 

 Synov. Leucotis Swains. 

 IVIesalia Gray 1840. Syn. Brit. Mus. * 



Etym, Vocab. barb. (? Mesal Adans. species Cerithii.) 

 Genus Trochoidcorum. (Agass. Nom.) 

 ?= Proto Defr. 



15) Meroe Stephens (1833.) genus Neuroplerorum. 



