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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Unio

species Unio durieui Deshayes, 1847: specimens
     8 available nominal species synonyms (10 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Unio mancus — Graf & Cummings (2007), Graf & Cummings (2011)
Unio ravoisieri — Araujo et al. (2009)
Unio durieui — IUCN (2010), Van Damme et al. (2010), Khalloufi et al. (2011), Prié & Puillandre (2014), Froufe et al. (2016), Araujo et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), Príe et al. (2021), Lopes-Lima et al. (2021), Lyubas et al. (2022), Fassatoui et al. (2022)

Range

Mediterranean northern Africa.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

Algeria

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

Tunisia

MNCN_N1586. (COI: KX399953, go to Genbank) El Maaden River, Tunisia.

MNCN_N1588. (16S: KX400322, COI: KX399954, go to Genbank) ditto.

MNCN_N1589. (16S: KX400323, COI: KX399955, go to Genbank) ditto.

MNCN_N1590. (16S: KX400324, COI: KX399956, go to Genbank) ditto.

MNCN_N1591. (16S: KX400325, COI: KX399957, go to Genbank) ditto.

MNCN_N1593. (16S: KX400326, COI: KX399958, go to Genbank) ditto.

MNCN_N1580. (16S: GU071038, COI: GU070990, go to Genbank) Tunisia: El-Maaden River, Djebel Abiod.

MNCN_N1581. (16S: GU071039, COI: GU070991, go to Genbank) ditto.

MNCN_N1583. (16S: GU071040, COI: GU070992, go to Genbank) ditto.

MNCN_N1592. (16S: GU071041, COI: GU070993, go to Genbank) ditto.