Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Coelaturini | Prisodontopsis

species Prisodontopsis mweruensis (E.A. Smith, 1908): synonymy

90 specimens + 6 GenBank vouchers

Synonymy

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Unio mweruensis E.A. Smith, 1908

specimen image from publicationE.A. Smith, 1908. Proc. Malac. Soc. London 8: 13, text fig.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE BMNH_1907-11-11-33, Lake Mweru.

Unio mweruensisE.A. Smith (1908)
Parreysia mweruensisSimpson (1914), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Caelatura [sic] (Mweruella) mweruensisHaas (1936), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Mweruella mweruensisPain & Woodward (1968), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020)
Caelatura [sic] mweruensisMandahl-Barth (1968), Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Mweruella (s.s.) mweruensisStarobogatov (1970)
Prisodontopsis mweruensisGraf et al. (2014), Graf & Cummings (2021), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Coelatura mweruensisBolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), Huang et al. (2019)

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Caelatura (Kistinaia) schoutedeni Haas, 1936

Haas, 1936. Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 431: 64, pl. 5, figs. 4a-d.
Haas, 1969. Treatise on Invert. Paleo 1: N418 [as ‘shoutedeni’].
Type(s): TYPE MRAC_56145, Riv. Luapula a Kasenga.

Caelatura [sic] (Kistinaia) schoutedeniHaas (1936), Haas (1969)
Mweruella mweruensisPain & Woodward (1968), Daget (1998), IUCN (2010)
Caelatura [sic] schoutedeniMandahl-Barth (1968)
Caelatura [sic] (Kistinaia) shoutedeni [sic]Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] mweruensisMandahl-Barth (1988)

Caelatura symoensi Mandahl-Barth, 1968

Mandahl-Barth, 1968. Expl. Hydrobiol. Bangweulu-Luapula 12: 53, pl. 3, fig. 2; pl. 10, fig. 6.
Mandahl-Barth, 1988. Studies on African Freshwater Bivalves: 28, fig. 109.

Caelatura [sic] symoensiMandahl-Barth (1968)
Caelatura [sic] mweruensisMandahl-Barth (1988)
Mweruella mweruensisDaget (1998), IUCN (2010)

Caelatura shoutedeni ‘Haas, 1936’ of Authors

‘Haas, 1936’ of Authors.
Haas, 1969. Treatise on Invert. Paleo 1: N418.
Millard, 2001. Class. Moll. (3): 1062.
(error for Caelatura (Kistinaia) schoutedeni Haas, 1936)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Unio mweruensisE.A. Smith (1908)
Parreysia mweruensisSimpson (1914), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Caelatura [sic] (Mweruella) mweruensisHaas (1936), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] (Kistinaia) schoutedeniHaas (1936), Haas (1969)
Mweruella mweruensisPain & Woodward (1968), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020)
Caelatura [sic] mweruensisMandahl-Barth (1968), Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Caelatura [sic] schoutedeniMandahl-Barth (1968)
Caelatura [sic] symoensiMandahl-Barth (1968)
Caelatura [sic] (Kistinaia) shoutedeni [sic]Haas (1969)
Mweruella (s.s.) mweruensisStarobogatov (1970)
Prisodontopsis mweruensisGraf et al. (2014), Graf & Cummings (2021), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Coelatura mweruensisBolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), Huang et al. (2019)