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

nominal species Unio (Nodularia) lacoini Germain, 1906

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Unio (Nodularia) lacoini Germain, 1906 = Coelatura aegyptiaca

Germain, 1905. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 11: 489. [nomen nudum]
Germain, 1906. Mém. Soc. Zool. France 19: 237, pl. 4, figs. 11-12.
Germain, 1907. L’Afrique Centrale Française: 545, footnote.
Germain, 1909. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 15: 541.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_0146, Lac Tchad, Kanassarom (Cote N.E.).

= Coelatura aegyptiaca

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Caelatura [sic] (s.s.) aegyptiaca (Cailliaud, 1827) — Ibrahim et al., 1999

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

+ Caelatura [sic] aegyptiaca aegyptiaca (Cailliaud, 1827) — Mandahl-Barth, 1988

+ Caelatura (s.s.) [sic] aegyptiaca (Cailliaud, 1827) — Van Damme, 1984

+ Caelatura [sic] (s.s.) tsadiana (von Martens, 1903) — Haas, 1969

= Caelatura [sic] lacoini (Germain, 1905) — Lévèque, 1967

= Caelatura [sic] lacoini Germain — Franc, 1949

+ Haas, 1936

= Unio lacoini Germain, 1906 — Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

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

= Unio (Nodularia) lacoini Germain, 1906 — Germain, 1907

 
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