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nominal species Unio niloticus Küster, 1856

Unio niloticus Küster, 1856 = Unio caffer

specimen image from publication‘Caillaud’ Küster, 1856. Conchyl. Cab. 9(2): 158, pl. 45, fig. 5.
(misidentified reference to Unio niloticus Cailliaud, 1827)

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Unio (sec. Cafferia) caffer var. africanus Lea, 1856 — Simpson, 1914: 576.

+ Nodularia (Cælatura [sic]) nilotica Cailliaud — Pallary, 1909: 77.

+ Nodularia (sec. Cafferia) caffer var. africana (Lea, 1856) — Simpson, 1900: 825.

+ Unio niloticus (Fér.) Caill. — Westerlund, 1890: 180.

+ Unio niloticus Cailliaud — E.A. Smith, 1880: 351.