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Publication Germain (1909): summary

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Germain, L. 1909. Contributions à la faune malacologique de l’Afrique Équatoriale XXII: Description de mollusques nouveaux de l’Afrique Équinoxiale. Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle 15: 539-544. Available electronically.

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Mutela alluaudi Germain, 1909 = Mutela alluaudi

Germain, 1909. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 15: 544, pl. 8, fig. 45.
Type(s): TYPE MNHN_MP_0168, Lac Albert Nyanza.

Unio ruellani var. bayoni Germain, 1909 = Coelatura hauttecoeuri

Germain, 1909. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 15: 275, pl. 3, fig. 36.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio ruellani Bourguignat, 1883)

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Unio (Nodularia) lacoini variété chudeaui Germain, 1909 = Coelatura aegyptiaca

Germain, 1909. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 15: 541.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio (Nodularia) lacoini Germain, 1906)
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0133, Lac Tchad, N’Guigmi [?].

Mutelina mabillei var. gaillardi Germain, 1909 = Mutela joubini

Germain, 1909. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 15: 477.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Mutelina mabillei Germain, 1907)

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Unio (Nodularia) gaillardi Germain, 1909 = Pilsbryoconcha carinifera

Germain, 1909. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 15: 542, pl. 8, fig. 41-42.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_0045, Senegal.

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Unio (Nodularia) koehleri Germain, 1909 = Coelatura aegyptiaca

Germain, 1909. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 15: 541, pl. 8, figs. 43-44, 47 [as ‘kœhleri’].
Germain, 1925. Miss. Rohan-Chabot 4(3): 223, figs. 6-8.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_0138, Guinee Francaise.

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Unio (Nodularia) lacoini Germain, 1906 = Coelatura aegyptiaca

Germain, 1905. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 11: 489. [nomen nudum]
Germain, 1906. Mém. Soc. Zool. France 19: 237, pl. 4, figs. 11-12.
Germain, 1907. L’Afrique Centrale Française: 545, footnote.
Germain, 1909. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 15: 541.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_0146, Lac Tchad, Kanassarom (Cote N.E.).

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Unio (Nodularia) nguigmiensis Germain, 1909 = Coelatura aegyptiaca

Germain, 1909. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 15: 540, text fig. 40.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) MNHN_MP_0123, Lac Tchad, N’Guigmi.

Spatha (Leptospatha) stuhlmanni Germain, 1909 = Aspatharia dahomeyensis

of Authors.
Germain, 1909. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 15: 211.
Franc, 1949. J. de Conch. 9: 164.
(misidentified reference to Spatha stuhlmanni Martens, 1897)
 
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