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Potamalosa novaehollandiae (non Valenciennes, 1847)
Misapplied name for Potamalosa richmondia (Macleay, 1879)

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Misapplied name
  Status details  
misapplied name, misapplied
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  Etymology of generic noun  
Greek, potamos = river + Latin, alausa = a fish cited by Ausonius and Latin, halec = pickle, dealing with the Greek word hals = salt; it is also the old Saxon name for shad = "alli" ; 1591 (Ref. 45335).
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References using the name as accepted
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