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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Coelaturini

genus Grandidieria Bourguignat, 1885: synonymy
     1 Recent valid species (1 total species)

Grandidieria Bourguignat, 1885
Bourguignat, 1885. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 2: 4.
Bourguignat, 1885. Notice Prodr. Moll. Giraud Tanganika: 92.
Bourguignat, 1886. Esp. Nouv. et Genres Nouv. Lac Oukékérewe et Tanganika: 15.
Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 41.
(renamed Ruellania Bourguignat, 1885)
Type species: Unio burtoni Woodward, 1859 (subsequent designation) = Grandidieria burtoni

Ruellania Bourguignat, 1885
Bourguignat, 1885. Notice Prodr. Moll. Giraud Tanganika: 92, footnote.
(new name for Grandidieria Bourguignat, 1885)

Ruellaria Fischer, 1887
‘Bourguignat’ Fischer, 1887. Manuel Conchyl.: 1000.
(error for Ruellania Bourguignat, 1885)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

GrandidieriaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Bloomer (1933), Thiele (1934), Graf (2000), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
UnioE.A. Smith (1904), E.A. Smith (1906)
Caelatura [sic] (Grandidieria)Haas (1936), Leloup (1950), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic]Mandahl-Barth (1988), Slugina (2006)
CoelaturaDaget (1998), Scholz & Glaubrecht (2004)

 
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