>- Cerastoderma glaucum: nothing, or worse, I have found the two authors you mention coming both from same source (in different papers). Anyway, I think the specific name has to be "glauca", isn't it?<
I believe derma is actually Greek and neuter, hence Cerastoderma edule, C. glaucm, etc. I know desma is Greek and neuter, affecting other molluscan genera.
>- Austrovenus stutchburyi: nothing definitive, but linguistic logics points to "yi"<
The difficulty is whether the original author used linguistic logic. Also, there is a bit of difficulty as to who gets the credit. It is in Wood, 1828, but is it Gray in Wood, 1828 or Wood, 1828? Sherborne and the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology list it as burii Wood, but Beu 1990 lists it as buryi Gray in Wood. Treatise lists yi Gray as auctt., i.e., a common subsequent error of various authors.
>- Crassostrea belcheri: Sowerby, 1878 (or 1871, after Poppe)
1871 seems to be agreed upon in the references I have since found.
>- Crassostrea nippona (Seki, 1934), as far as I know this is a synonim for C. belcheri<
One reference lists it as nipponica.
>- Saccostrea cucullata: I donīt know Stenzelīs arguments, but my Latin dictionary only register "cucullus".<
Again, this was a claim by one sources of original error in the spelling, illegally corrected by later authors.
Thanks for the help!
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