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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Coelaturini | Grandidieria burtoni

nominal species Unio tanganikanus Bourguignat, 1883

Unio tanganikanus Bourguignat, 1883 = Grandidieria burtoni

E.A. Smith, 1880. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1880: 351 [as ‘Unio tanganyicensis’].
Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 18.
Bourguignat, 1885. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 2: 7.
Bourguignat, 1885. Notice Prodr. Moll. Giraud Tanganika: 94, 102 [as ‘Grandidieria tanganikana’].
Bourguignat, 1886. Esp. Nouv. et Genres Nouv. Lac Oukékérewe et Tanganika: 22 [as ‘Grandidieria tanganikana’].
(new name for Unio tanganyicensis E.A. Smith, 1880)

= Grandidieria burtoni

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Coelatura burtoni (Woodward, 1859) — Daget, 1998

+ Caelatura [sic] (Grandidieria) burtoni (Woodward, 1859) — Leloup, 1950

+ Grandidieria tanganyicensis (Smith, E.A., 1880) — Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

+ Grandidieria tanganyicensis (Smith, E.A., 1880) — Simpson, 1914

+ Grandidieria tanganyicensis (Smith, E.A., 1880) — Simpson, 1900

+ Unio tanganyicensis E. Smi., 1880 — Martens, 1897

= Grandidieria tanganikana Bourg. — Sturany, 1894

= Grandidieria tanganikana Bourg. — Bourguignat, 1889

= Grandidieria tanganikana (Bourguignat, 1885) — Bourguignat, 1886

= Grandidieria tanganikana (Bourguignat, 1885) — Bourguignat, 1885

= Unio tanganikanus Bourguignat, 1883 — Bourguignat, 1883

 
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