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Data last updated
Thu 1 January 2026

Publication E.A. Smith (1877): summary

Full Citation

Smith, E.A. 1877. On the shells of Lake Nyassa, and on a few marine species from Mozambique. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 712-722. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Corbicula nyassana Bourguignat, 1889 = Corbicula africana

‘Parreyss’ E.A. Smith, 1877. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1877: 718.
Bourguignat, 1889. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 6: 37.

Cyrena (Corbicula) radiata E.A. Smith, 1877 = Corbicula africana

‘Parreyss’ E.A. Smith, 1877. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1877: 718.
(misidentified reference to Cyrena radiata Philippi, 1846)

Taxonomic Opinions

Unio nyassaënsis Lea = Nyassunio nyassaensis

+ Unio nyassae Sowerby, 1866

+ Unio nyassensis ‘Lea’ of Authors

 
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