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Unionidae

Margaritiferidae

Hyriidae

Etheriidae

Mycetopodidae

Iridinidae


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Central America

South America

Afrotropics

North Eurasia

East Asia

Australasia


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Data last updated
Mon 1 Dec 2025

Publication Van Damme & Van Bocxlaer (2009): summary

publication summary

Full Citation

Van Damme, D. & B. Van Bocxlaer. 2009. Freshwater molluscs of the Nile Basin, past and present. [in] Dumont, The Nile: Origin, Environments, Limnology and Human Use: 585-629. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Chambardia wismanni Van Damme & Van Bocxlaer, 2009 = Chambardia wissmanni

Van Damme & Van Bocxlaer, 2009. The Nile: 595.
(error for Spatha wissmanni Martens, 1883)

Taxonomic Opinions

Aspatharia chaiziana

Aspatharia divaricata

Aspatharia marnoi

Aspatharia pfeifferiana

Chambardia bourguignati

Chambardia letourneuxi

Chambardia rubens

Chambardia tabula = Chambardia wahlbergi

Chambardia trapezia

Chambardia wahlbergi

Chambardia wismanni [sic] = Chambardia wissmanni

Coelatura aegyptiaca

Coelatura alluaudi

Coelatura bakeri

Coelatura bangoranensis = Coelatura aegyptiaca

Coelatura cridlandi

Coelatura gabonensis

Coelatura hauttecoeuri

Coelatura stuhlmanni

Corbicula fluminalis

Etheria elliptica

Eupera crassa

Eupera ferruginea

Mutela alluaudi Germain, 1909

Mutela bourguignati

Mutela dubia

Mutela joubini

Mutela rostrata

Nitia acuminata

Nitia chefneuxi

Nitia monceti

Nitia mutelaeformis

Nitia teretiuscula

Pisidium amnicum

Pisidium armillatum

Pisidium casertanum = Euglesa casertana

Pisidium ethiopicum = Euglesa ethiopica

Pisidium fistulosum

Pisidium invenustum

Pisidium kenianum = Euglesa keniana

Pisidium montigenum

Pisidium pirothi = Euglesa pirothi

Pisidium subtruncatum = Euglesa subtruncata

Sphaerium hartmanni

Sphaerium nyanzae

Sphaerium regulare

Sphaerium stuhlmanni

Sphaerium victoriae

Unio abyssinicus

Unio dembeae

 
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