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

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species Coelatura leopoldvillensis (Putzeys, 1898): synonymy
     49 specimens + 4 Genbank vouchers

Unio leopoldvillensis Putzeys, 1898
Putzeys, 1898. Ann. Soc. Roy. Malac. Belgique 33: 24, text figs. 12-13.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MRAC_56597, Le Stanley Pool, pres de Leopoldville.

Parreysia (s.s.) leopoldvillensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Parreyssia [sic] leopoldvillensisKobelt (1910)
Parreysia leopoldvillensisPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Connolly (1931)
Caelatura [sic] (Rhytidonaia) leopoldvillensisHaas (1936), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] leopoldvillensisMandahl-Barth (1988)
Coelatura leopoldvillensisDaget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf et al. (2014), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)

Caelatura graueri Haas, 1927
Haas, 1927. Senckenbergiana 9: 21, pl. 1, figs. 2-4.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE SMF_3281, Urwald Ukaika, nw. Albert-Edward-Sees.

Caelatura [sic] graueriHaas (1927)
Caelatura [sic] (Rhytidonaia) graueriHaas (1936), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] leopoldvillensisMandahl-Barth (1988)
Coelatura leopoldvillensisDaget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2006), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf et al. (2014)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Parreysia (s.s.) leopoldvillensisSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Parreyssia [sic] leopoldvillensisKobelt (1910)
Parreysia leopoldvillensisPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Caelatura [sic] graueriHaas (1927)
Connolly (1931)
Caelatura [sic] (Rhytidonaia) leopoldvillensisHaas (1936), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] (Rhytidonaia) graueriHaas (1936), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] leopoldvillensisMandahl-Barth (1988)
Coelatura leopoldvillensisDaget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf et al. (2014), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)

 
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