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

nominal species Unio mysticus Pallary, 1903

Unio mysticus Pallary, 1903 = Coelatura aegyptiaca

specimen image from publication‘Bourguignat’ Pallary, 1903. Bull. Inst. Égypt. 3 (4th series): 94, pl. 2, fig. 3.
Pallary, 1909. Mém. Inst. Égypte 6(1): 78.
specimen image from publication‘Bourguignat’ Pallary, 1924. Mém. Inst. Égypte 7 (n.s.): 50, pl. 4, figs. 1-3.

= Coelatura aegyptiaca

Taxonomic Opinions

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

+ Caelatura [sic] (s.s.) aegyptiaca (Cailliaud, 1827) — Haas, 1969

+ Caelatura [sic] (s.s.) aegyptiaca (Cailliaud, 1827) — Haas, 1936

+ Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

+ Pallary, 1924

= Nodularia (sec. Cælatura [sic]) mystica (‘Bourguignat’ Pallary, 1903) — Simpson, 1914

= Nodularia (Cælatura [sic]) mystica Bourguignat — Pallary, 1909

= Unio mysticus Bourguignat — Pallary, 1903

 
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