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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Coelaturini | Coelatura

species Coelatura luapulaensis (Preston, 1913): synonymy

23 specimens + 5 Genbank vouchers

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Unio (Nodularia) luapulaensis Preston, 1913

specimen image from publicationPreston, 1913. Rev. Zool. Afr. 3(1): 60, pl. 4, fig. 11.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) MRAC_56593, Kasanga, confluent du div Lukulu et Luapula.

Parreysia mweruensisPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Caelatura [sic] (s.s.) choziensis luapulaensisHaas (1936)
Caelatura [sic] luapulaensisMandahl-Barth (1968), Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Caelatura [sic] (s.s.) choziensis luapulensisHaas (1969)
Coelatura luapulaensisDaget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf et al. (2014), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Galal-Khallaf et al. (2024)

Coelatura mweruensis Bolotov et al., 2017

‘Smith’ of Authors.
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1. [in part]
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio mweruensis E.A. Smith, 1908)

Coelatura luapulaensisGraf et al. (2014), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Parreysia mweruensisPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Caelatura [sic] (s.s.) choziensis luapulaensisHaas (1936)
Caelatura [sic] luapulaensisMandahl-Barth (1968), Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Caelatura [sic] (s.s.) choziensis luapulensisHaas (1969)
Coelatura luapulaensisDaget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf et al. (2014), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Galal-Khallaf et al. (2024)
Coelatura mweruensisBolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017)

 
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