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nominal species Unio gabonensis Küster, 1862

Unio gabonensis Küster, 1862 = Coelatura gabonensis

specimen image from publication Küster, 1862. Conchyl. Cab. 9(2): 291, pl. 97, fig. 7.
Type(s): TYPE UNKNOWN, Gabon in West Africa.

Taxonomic Opinions

= Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862) — Campbell & Lydeard, 2026: 292.

= Coelatura gabonensis — Galal-Khallaf et al., 2024: Fig. 6.

= Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862) — Graf & Cummings, 2021: 23.

= Coelatura cf. gabonensis — Ortiz-Sepulveda et al., 2020: [5].

= Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862) — Huang et al., 2019: Table S4.

= Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862) — Bolotov et al., 2017: [4], Table S1.

= Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862) — Bolotov et al., 2017: Table S1.

= Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862) — Graf et al., 2014: 307.

= Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862) — Graf & Cummings, 2011: 24.

= Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862) — Whelan et al., 2011: 506.

= Coelatura gabonensis (Kuster, 1862) — IUCN, 2010: [web].

= Coelatura gabonensis K¨ster, 1862 [sic] — Bogan, 2010: [6].

= Coelatura gabonensis — Van Damme & Van Bocxlaer, 2009: 594.

= Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862) — Graf & Cummings, 2007: 309.

= Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862) — Graf & Cummings, 2006: 183, fig. 25.

= Coelatura gabonensis (Küster, 1862) — Daget, 1998: 47.

= Caelatura [sic] aegyptiaca gabonensis (Küster, 1862) — Mandahl-Barth, 1988: 11, 25, figs. 34, 103-105, 110.

= Caelatura [sic] (Zairia) gabonensis (Küster, 1862) — Haas, 1969: 172.

= Caelatura [sic] (Zairia) gabunensis [sic] (Küster, 1862) — Haas, 1936: 68.

+ — Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 381.

= Nodularia (sec. Cælatura [sic]) gabonensis (Küster, 1862) — Simpson, 1914: 1031.

= Nodularia (Coelatura) gabonensis Kstr. — Kobelt, 1910: 84.

= Nodularia (sec. Cælatura [sic]) gabonensis (Küster, 1862) — Simpson, 1900: 823.

= Margaron (Unio) gabonensis (Küst.) — Lea, 1870: 47.