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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Iridinidae | Aspathariinae genus Aspatharia Bourguignat, 1886: species
1 available nominal genus synonym (3 total synonyms) | cladomics  Aspatharia chaiziana (Rang, 1835)
syonymy (5 available, 12 total) | specimens (100)
Range: From the Senegal to the Lake Chad Basin, including the Niger River in western Africa and the Nile. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Aspatharia dahomeyensis (Lea, 1859)
syonymy (11 available, 18 total) | specimens (115)
Range: From the Senegal to the Lake Chad Basin, including the Niger River, western Africa. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Aspatharia divaricata (Martens, 1897)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (1)
Range: Lake Victoria, Tanzania, Africa. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered B2ab(iii)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Aspatharia droueti (Chaper, 1885)
syonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (46)
Range: Ivory Coast and Ghana, Africa. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Vulnerable A3ce
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Aspatharia ganciniensis (Rochebrune, 1886)
syonymy (4 available, 6 total) | specimens (23)
Range: Middle and lower Congo, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), and the DRC, Africa. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Least Concern (Aspatharia semicorrugata)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Aspatharia marnoi (Jickeli, 1874)
syonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (40)
Range: Nile Basin in Africa. There are records from coastal streams in Tanzania. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Aspatharia pangallensis (Rochebrune, 1882)
syonymy (2 available, 4 total) | specimens (24)
Range: From the Senegal and Niger rivers, east to Lake Chad, western Africa. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Vulnerable A3ce
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Aspatharia pfeifferiana (Bernardi, 1860)
syonymy (7 available, 11 total) | specimens (226 + 1 Genbank voucher)
Range: Congo Basin and Gabon, central Africa. (Afrotropics)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3, other, SRA
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Aspatharia rochebrunei (Jousseaume, 1886)
syonymy (3 available, 4 total) | specimens (30)
Range: Western Africa, in the Senegal, Volta, Niger and Chad-Chari basins. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Vulnerable A3ce
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Aspatharia rugifera (Dunker, 1858)
syonymy (6 available, 9 total) | specimens (77)
Range: Cameroon south to lowest Congo, Central Africa. Reported from the Cunene in southern Africa by Germain (1925), though no specimens are known. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Aspatharia subreniformis (Sowerby, 1867)
syonymy (3 available, 5 total) | specimens (29)
Range: Cunene, Okavango and Zambezi rivers, including the Malawi-Shiré, Africa. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase
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