Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Coelaturini | Prisodontopsis

species Prisodontopsis aviculaeformis F.R. Woodward, 1991: synonymy

51 specimens + 7 GenBank vouchers

Synonymy

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Unio (Metaptera) johnstoni E.A. Smith, 1893

E.A. Smith, 1893. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1893: 640, pl. 59, figs. 18-20.
(renamed Prisodontopsis aviculaeformis F.R. Woodward, 1991; homonym of Unio johnstoni Etheridge, 1881)
Type(s): LECTOTYPE BMNH_1893-8-23-100 (by F.R. Woodward, 1991: 104), Lake Mweru, Central Africa.

Pseudavicula johnstoni — Simpson (1900), Kobelt (1910), Simpson (1914), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Modell (1942)
Prisodontopsis johnstoni — Tomlin (1928), Thiele (1934), Pain & Woodward (1968), Mandahl-Barth (1968), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Prisodontopsis aviculaeformis — F.R. Woodward (1991), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf & Cummings (2021)

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Prisodontopsis aviculaeformis F.R. Woodward, 1991

F.R. Woodward, 1991. J. of Conch. 34: 104.
(new name for Unio (Metaptera) johnstoni E.A. Smith, 1893)
Type(s): AUTOMATIC BMNH_1893-8-23-100, Lake Mweru, Central Africa.

Prisodontopsis aviculaeformis — F.R. Woodward (1991), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), ... Pfeiffer et al. (2018), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)

Coelatura mweruensis ‘Smith’ of Authors

‘Smith’ of Authors.
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1. [in part]
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio mweruensis E.A. Smith, 1908)

Prisodontopsis aviculaeformis — Graf et al. (2014), Pfeiffer et al. (2018), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Pseudavicula johnstoni — Simpson (1900), Kobelt (1910), Simpson (1914), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Modell (1942)
Prisodontopsis johnstoni — Tomlin (1928), Thiele (1934), Pain & Woodward (1968), Mandahl-Barth (1968), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Prisodontopsis aviculaeformis — F.R. Woodward (1991), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), ... Pfeiffer et al. (2018), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Coelatura mweruensis — Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017)