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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Iridinidae | Aspathariinae

genus Chambardia Bourguignat in Servain, 1890: synonymy

11 Recent freshwater species (12 total species)

Synonymy

Spathella Bourguignat, 1886

Bourguignat, 1886. Esp. Nouv. et Genres Nouv. Lac Oukékérewe et Tanganika: 14.
Bourguignat, 1889. Moll. Afrique Équatoriale: 195.
(homonym of J. Hall, 1885 [Modiomorphidae]; intro'd as sub-gen. of Spatha Lea, 1838; renamed Leptospatha Rochebrune & Germain, 1904)
Type species: Spatha petersi Martens, 1860 (sub. desig. by Bourguignat, 1889: 195, footnote) = Chambardia petersi

Chambardia Servain, 1890

Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 4. [nomen nudum]
Bourguignat in Servain, 1890. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 7: 304.
Type species: Chambardia letourneuxi Servain, 1890 (sub. desig. by Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 413) = Chambardia letourneuxi

Spathopsis Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 857.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 1179.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Lamellidens Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Anodonta guillaini Récluz, 1850 (orig. desig.) = Chambardia wahlbergi

Leptospatha Rochebrune & Germain, 1904

Rochebrune & Germain, 1904. Mém. Soc. Zool. France 17: 25.
(new name for Spathella Bourguignat, 1886)
Type species: Spatha petersi Martens, 1860 = Chambardia petersi

Arthropteron Rochebrune, 1904

Rochebrune, 1904. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 461.
Type species: Arthropteron ouassouloui Rochebrune, 1904 (monotypy) = Chambardia rubens

Mitriodon Rochebrune, 1904

Rochebrune, 1904. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 462.
Type species: Mitriodon martini Rochebrune, 1904 (subsequent designation) = Chambardia rubens

Spatella Haas, 1929

‘Bourguignat’ Haas, 1929. Senckenbergiana 11: 112.
(error for Spathella Bourguignat, 1886)
Type species: Spatha petersi Martens, 1860 = Chambardia petersi

Spathiella Van Damme, 1984

Van Damme, 1984. Freshw. Moll. N. Africa (25): 64.
(error for Spathella Bourguignat, 1886)
Type species: Spatha petersi Martens, 1860 = Chambardia petersi

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Chambardia, since 1900.

Spatha (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Kobelt (1904), Kobelt (1910), Simpson (1914), Ortmann (1918)
Spatha — Simpson (1900), Germain (1907), Pallary (1909), Simpson (1914), Pallary (1924)
Mutela — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Glabaris — Simpson (1900)
Lamellidens (Spathopsis) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Chambardia — Pallary (1909), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2006), Graf & Cummings (2006), ... Sano et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Galal-Khallaf et al. (2024), Chen et al. (2025)
Spathopsis — Kobelt (1910), Modell (1942), Van Damme (1984), Mandahl-Barth (1988), Ibrahim et al. (1999)
Spatha (Arthropteron) — Kobelt (1910)
Spatha (Mitriodon) — Kobelt (1910)
Arthropteron — Simpson (1914), Haas (1969)
Anodontites — Simpson (1914), Simone (2006)
Aspatharia (s.s.) — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969)
Aspatharia (Spathopsis) — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1929), Connolly (1930), Thiele (1934), Haas (1936), ... Crowley et al. (1964), Mandahl-Barth (1968), Haas (1969), Appleton (1979), Kenmuir (1980)
Aspatharia (Arthropteron) — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969)
Mutela (s.s.) — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Aspatharia — Connolly (1931), Modell (1942), Van Damme (1984), Curtis & Appleton (1987), Mandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998)
Aspatharia (Chambardia) — Haas (1969)

 
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