MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
by Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
by Family
Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
by Geography
Data last updated
Mon 2 March 2026
Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Coelaturini | Prisodontopsis
species Prisodontopsis mweruensis (E.A. Smith, 1908): specimens
3 available nominal species synonyms (4 total synonyms)
Recent Taxonomic Opinions
Mweruella mweruensis — Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020)
Prisodontopsis mweruensis — Graf et al. (2014), Graf & Cummings (2021), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Coelatura mweruensis — Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), Huang et al. (2019)
Range
Endemic to the Lake Mweru Basin and the Lower Luapula in the Upper Congo of Africa. (Afrotropics: AF3)
Map of Georeferenced Specimens
MUSSELp Specimen Records
Congo (DRC)
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BMNH_1907-11-11-35-49. Lake Mweru
Zambia
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GenBank Vouchers
Georeferenced GenBank Vouchers
Zambia
UMMZ_304377-Ht. (28S: KJ081189, COI: KJ081174, go to GenBank) Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia.
UMMZ_304377-Iu. (28S: KJ081190, COI: KJ081175, go to GenBank) ditto.
UMMZ_304377-Jv. (28S: KJ081191, COI: KJ081176, go to GenBank) ditto.
UMMZ_304378-Fu. (28S: KJ081192, COI: KJ081175, go to GenBank) ditto.
UMMZ_304378-Jw. (28S: KJ081191, COI: KJ081177, go to GenBank) ditto.
UMMZ_304378-Jx. (28S: KJ081191, COI: KJ081178, go to GenBank) ditto.
