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Data last updated
Mon 1 Dec 2025

species Coelatura horei (E.A. Smith, 1880): specimens

18 available nominal species synonyms (26 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Coelatura horei — Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Galal-Khallaf et al. (2024)

Range

Lake Tanganyika, DRC, Zambia, and Tanzania.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

specimens map of Coelatura horei

MUSSELp Specimen Records

Burundi

MRAC_59256 a 20 km a l’interieur d’Usumbura	MRAC_59595 a 20 km a l’interieur d’Usumbura	MRAC_796675 Lac Tanganyika: Usumbura
MRAC_576710 Plaine de la Ruzizi, Kasaga	MRAC_296823 Usumbura Tanganyika	MRAC_346874 Usumbura Tanganyika
MRAC_280077 Usumbura, Lac Tanganyika

Congo (DRC)

MRAC_589472 Albertville	IRSNB_MP_0869 Albertville (Congo Belge)	IRSNB_MP_0875 Albertville (Congo Belge) [This doesn’t look like anything from Tanganyika.]
MNHN_MP_0025 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0025 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0041 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_0041 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0089 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0089 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_0102 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0102 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0120 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_0120 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0120 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0140 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_0140 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0151 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0151 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_0159 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0159 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0159 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_0160 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0160 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0160 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_0190 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0190 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0190 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_0192 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0192 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	IRSNB_MP_0227 Kibanga, Lac Tanganyika
MNHN_MP_0049 Kibanga, Lac Tanganyika	MNHN_MP_0049 Kibanga, Lac Tanganyika	MNHN_MP_1342 Kibanga, Lac Tanganyika
MNHN_MP_1342 Kibanga, Lac Tanganyika	MNHN_MP_1342_01 Kibanga, Lac Tanganyika	MNHN_MP_1554 Kibanga, lac Tanganyika
MNHN_MP_1554 Kibanga, lac Tanganyika	MNHN_MP_1338 Lac Tanganyika	MNHN_MP_1339 Lac Tanganyika
MNHN_MP_1339 Lac Tanganyika	MRAC_55610 Lac Tanganyika a Foa	MRAC_55595 Lac Tanganyika amont Foa
MRAC_65223 Lac Tanganyika pres Albertville	MCZ_77274 Lake Tanganyika, Albertville, Belgian Congo	MCZ_102327 Lake Tanganyika, Mpala, Belgian Congo
MNHN_MP_1341 M’Pala	MNHN_MP_1341 M’Pala	MRAC_56801 Tanganyika Mpala
IRSNB_MP_0229 Uvira (Lac Tanganyika)

Tanzania

ZMB_35532 Karema, Tanganyikasee, Tanzania	ZMB_35532 Karema, Tanganyikasee, Tanzania	ANSP_132578 Lake Tanganyika, Kigoma, Tanganyika Terr.
UMMZ_132878 Lake Tanganyika, Kigoma, Tanganyika Territory	ZMB_104822 Rusango (bei Ujiji), Tanganyikasee, Tanzania	ZMB_104821 Tanganyika
SMF_5011 Tanganyika See, b. Karema	ZMB_32910A Tanganyikasee, Tanzania	ZMB_32910A Tanganyikasee, Tanzania
ZMB_32910B Tanganyikasee, Tanzania	ZMB_32910B Tanganyikasee, Tanzania

unknown

MNHN_MP_1337 [no locality available - Africa - Lake Tanganyika]	ZMB_MP_0390 [no locality available - Africa]	ZMB_MP_0390 [no locality available - Africa]
ANSP_133832 L. Tanganyika	ANSP_134031 L. Tanganyika	MNHN_MP_1103 Lac Moero, Katanga, Congo Belge
MNHN_MP_1103 Lac Moero, Katanga, Congo Belge	IRSNB_MP_0222 Lac Tanganyika	IRSNB_MP_0231 Lac Tanganyika
IRSNB_MP_0308 Lac Tanganyika	IRSNB_MP_0826 Lac Tanganyika	IRSNB_MP_0834 Lac Tanganyika
IRSNB_MP_0873 Lac Tanganyika	IRSNB_MP_2002 Lac Tanganyika	MRAC_55002 Lac Tanganyika
MRAC_55594 Lac Tanganyika	MRAC_55598 Lac Tanganyika	MRAC_55602 Lac Tanganyika
MRAC_55605 Lac Tanganyika	MRAC_55617 Lac Tanganyika	MRAC_55673 Lac Tanganyika
MRAC_56800 Lac Tanganyika	MRAC_56800 Lac Tanganyika	MRAC_60245 Lac Tanganyika
AMNH_305987 Lake Moero, Katanga, Zaire	AMNH_305988 Lake Moero, Katanga, Zaire	AMS_5481 Lake Tanganyika
BMNH_1906-3-9-43 Lake Tanganyika	BMNH_80-12-20-10-13 Lake Tanganyika	BMNH_80-12-20-42 Lake Tanganyika
BMNH_80-12-20-42 Lake Tanganyika	BMNH_80-3-5-34-38 Lake Tanganyika	MCZ_MP.251 Lake Tanganyika
MNHN_MP_1331 Lake Tanganyika	MNHN_MP_1332 Lake Tanganyika	MNHN_MP_1333 Lake Tanganyika
MNHN_MP_1335 Lake Tanganyika	MNHN_MP_1335 Lake Tanganyika	IRSNB_MP_0224 Tanganyika
IRSNB_MP_0225 Tanganyika	IRSNB_MP_0226 Tanganyika	IRSNB_MP_0228 Tanganyika
IRSNB_MP_0233 Tanganyika	IRSNB_MP_0263 Tanganyika	IRSNB_MP_0307 Tanganyika
IRSNB_MP_0313 Tanganyika	IRSNB_MP_0857 Tanganyika	IRSNB_MP_2000 Tanganyika
MRAC_483965 Tanganyika	MRAC_483980 Tanganyika	MRAC_483990 Tanganyika
MRAC_55585 Tanganyika	MRAC_56421 Tanganyika	MRAC_56578 Tanganyika
MRAC_56578 Tanganyika	ZMB_35532-01 Tanganyika	SMF_13623 Tanganyika-See
SMF_13643 Tanganyika-See

Zambia

MCZ_82036 Lake Tanganyika, Niamkolo, Northern Rhodesia	MRAC_795303 Zambia Liemba Lac Tanganyika	MRAC_795322 Zambia: Kasakalabwe Mpulungu
MRAC_795313 Zambia: Lac Tanganyika Kasaba Bay

Genbank Vouchers

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

Burundi

UGSB_15585 (21607). (16S: MT218210, 28S: MT218077, COI: MT216391, H3: MT183379, go to Genbank) Burundi: Lake Tanganyika (3.38136 S 29.336 E).

Tanzania

UGSB_15880 (21868). (16S: MT218225, 28S: MT218091, COI: MT216406, H3: MT183391, go to Genbank) Tanzania: Lake Tanganyika (4.87324 S 29.62958 E).

UGSB_15881 (21869). (16S: MT218226, 28S: MT218092, COI: MT216407, H3: MT183392, go to Genbank) Tanzania: Lake Tanganyika (4.92475 S 29.67479 E).

UGSB_17457 (22935). (16S: MT218306, COI: MT216482, go to Genbank) ditto.

UGSB_17600 (22871). (16S: MT218277, COI: MT216456, go to Genbank) Tanzania: Lake Tanganyika (8.60195 S 31.17715 E).

UGSB_17597 (22868). (16S: MT218274, COI: MT216453, go to Genbank) Tanzania: Lake Tanganyika (8.60546 S 31.174588 E).

UGSB_17588 (22859). (16S: MT218266, COI: MT216446, go to Genbank) Zambia: Lake Tanganyika (8.60298 S 31.18382 E).

Zambia

UGSB_17595 (22866). (16S: MT218273, COI: MT229890, go to Genbank) Zambia: Lake Tanganyika (8.6239 S 31.20065 E).