Author: Locard, A.
Title: Prodrome de Malacologie Française. Observations sur la faune marine des cotes de France.
Description: Lyon, Société Linnéenne de Lyon, 1886. Large 8vo (25.9 x 16.6 cm). 73 pp. Nice contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges. = The Prodrome was published in 1886 with many references to "Locard, 1884" manuscript names, and included without descriptions. Hence they were nude names. However, it is the current work (added to the Prodrome starting with page 531, and possibly preceding that work) that remediates these omissions: over 70 species and a few genera are validly described here for the first time. Additional information, e.g., on nomenclatural and systematical issues relating to taxa in the main text of the Prodrome are included too. Published in the society's Annales, Volume 32 (for the year 1885), together with several other important zoological studies, in particular on Coleoptera. Some damp-staining in the top gutter of the first few leaves, the Locard paper entirely clean. A very good copy.

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