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Publication Pain & Woodward (1968): summary

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Pain, T. & F.R. Woodward. 1968. A monograph of the African bivalves of the genera Brazzaea Bourguignat, Mweruella Haas, Prisodontopsis Tomlin and Pseudospatha Simpson. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 77: 190-220.

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Taxonomic Opinions

Brazzaea anceyi Bourguignat, 1885
+ Brazzaea ventrosa Bourguignat, 1886
+ Brazzaea randabeli Bourguignat, 1886
+ Brazzaea moineti Bourguignat, 1886
+ Brazzaea jouberti Bourguignat, 1886
+ Brazzaea coulboisi Bourguignat, 1886
+ Brazzaea elongata Bourguignat, 1886
+ Brazzaea charbonnieri Bourguignat, 1886
+ Brazzaea lavigeriana Bourguignat, 1886
+ Brazzaea bridouxi Bourguignat, 1886
+ Brazzaea newcombiana Bourguignat, 1886
+ Brazzaea eximia Bourguignat, 1886
+ Brazzaea bourguignati Bourguignat, 1886

Mweruella mweruensis (Smith, E.A., 1908) = Prisodontopsis mweruensis
+ Caelatura (Kistinaia) schoutedeni Haas, 1936

Prisodontopsis johnstoni (Smith, E.A., 1893) = Prisodontopsis aviculaeformis

Pseudospatha tanganyicensis (Smith, E.A., 1880)
+ Burtonia livingstoniana Bourguignat, 1883
+ Burtonia tanganikana Bourguignat, 1883
+ Burtonia moineti Bourguignat, 1886
+ Burtonia elongata Bourguignat, 1886
+ Burtonia subtriangularis Bourguignat, 1886
+ Burtonia lavigeriana Bourguignat, 1886
+ Burtonia bridouxi Bourguignat, 1886
+ Burtonia bourguignati Bourguignat, 1886
+ Burtonia contorta Bourguignat, 1886
+ Burtonia jouberti Bourguignat, 1886
+ Burtonia magnifica Bourguignat, 1886
+ Burtonia grandidieriana Bourguignat, 1886
+ Spatha tanganyicensis E.A. Smith, 1880
+ Burtonia foai Mabille, 1901
+ Pseudospatha ortmanni Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927
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