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Publication E.A. Smith (1891): summary

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Full Citation

Smith, E.A. 1891. Notes on African Mollusca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 (6th series): 317-324. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio verreauxi E.A. Smith, 1891 = Unio caffer

‘Kuster’ of Authors.
E.A. Smith, 1891. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 8: 319.
Sturany, 1899. Denk. Ak. Wien 67: 627.
Connolly, 1925. Rec. Albany Mus. 3: [1].
Connolly, 1939. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 33: 608.
Heard & Vail, 1976. Zool. Africana 11(1): 45.
(error for Unio verrauxi Küster, 1856)

Taxonomic Opinions

Mutela wahlbergi (Krauss) = Chambardia wahlbergi
+ Spatha natalensis Lea, 1864

Unio caffer Krauss, 1848
+ Unio caffer Küster, 1856
+ Unio caffer Küster, 1856
+ Unio verreauianus Lea, 1856
+ Unio verrauianus Sowerby, 1868
+ Unio africanus Lea, 1856
+ Unio natalensis Lea, 1864
+ Unio vaalensis Chaper, 1885

Unio kunenensis Mousson, 1887 = Coelatura kunenensis

Unio verreauxi [sic] Charpenier, MSS., Küster = Unio caffer

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