MUSSELpdb

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Etheriidae

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Data last updated
Mon 1 Dec 2025

Publication Elderkin et al. (2016): summary

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Full Citation

Elderkin, C.L., C. Clewing, O. Wembo Ndeo & C. Albrecht. 2016. Molecular phylogeny and DNA barcoding confirm cryptic species in the African freshwater oyster Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 (Bivalvia: Etheriidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118(2): 369-381. Available electronically.

Taxonomic Opinions

Aspatharia pfeifferiana

Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807
+ Aetheria cailliaudi Férussac, 1824
+ Aetheria tubifera Sowerby, 1825

Velesunio ambiguus