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

nominal species Grandidieria smithi Bourguignat, 1885

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Grandidieria smithi Bourguignat, 1885 = Grandidieria burtoni

‘Woodward’ E.A. Smith, 1881. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1881: pl. 34, fig. 33a [as ‘Unio burtoni’].
Bourguignat, 1885. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 2: 7.
Bourguignat, 1885. Notice Prodr. Moll. Giraud Tanganika: 93.
Bourguignat, 1886. Esp. Nouv. et Genres Nouv. Lac Oukékérewe et Tanganika: 21.
Type(s): SYNTYPE BMNH_80-12-20-31, Lake Tanganyika.

= Grandidieria burtoni

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Grandidieria burtoni (Woodward, 1859) — IUCN, 2010

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

+ Mandahl-Barth, 1988

+ Caelatura [sic] (Grandidieria) burtoni (Woodward, 1859) — Haas, 1969

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

+ Caelatura [sic] (Grandidieria) burtoni (Woodward, 1859) — Haas, 1936

= Grandidieria smithi Bourguignat, 1885 — Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

= Grandidieria smithi Bourguignat, 1885 — Simpson, 1914

= Unio smithi Bourguignat — E.A. Smith, 1904

= Grandidieria smithi Bourguignat, 1885 — Simpson, 1900

= Unio burtoni var. smithi (Bourguignat, 1885) — Martens, 1897

= Grandidieria smithi Bourg. — Sturany, 1894

= Grandidieria smithi Bourg. — Bourguignat, 1889

= Grandidieria smithi Bourguignat, 1885 — Bourguignat, 1886

= Grandidieria smithi Bourguignat — Bourguignat, 1885

 
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