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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Coelaturini | Coelatura aegyptiaca

nominal species Unio (Nodularia) essoensis var. minor Germain, 1906

Unio (Nodularia) essoensis var. minor Germain, 1906 = Coelatura aegyptiaca

Germain, 1906. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 12: 172.
Germain, 1907. L’Afrique Centrale Française: 546.
(homonym of Unio margaritifer var. minor Rossmässler, 1835; intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio essoensis Chaper, 1885)

= Coelatura aegyptiaca

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Coelatura aegyptiaca (Cailliaud, 1827) — Daget, 1998

+ Caelatura [sic] (Zairia) essoensis (Chaper, 1885) — Haas, 1969

+ Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

= Nodularia (sec. Cælatura [sic]) essoensis var. minor (Germain, 1906) — Simpson, 1914

= Unio (Nodularia) essoensis variété minor Germain, 1906 — Germain, 1907

 
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