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Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
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Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
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freshwater mussels
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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Coelaturini | Pseudospatha tanganyicensis
nominal species Spatha tanganyicensis E.A. Smith, 1880
Spatha tanganyicensis E.A. Smith, 1880 = Pseudospatha tanganyicensis
E.A. Smith, 1880. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1880: pl. 31, fig. 8a. [in part]
E.A. Smith, 1881. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1881: 296, pl. 34, fig. 32.
(reference to Spatha tanganyicensis E.A. Smith, 1880)
Taxonomic Opinions
+ Pseudospatha tanganyicensis (Smith, E.A., 1880) — Pain & Woodward, 1968: 213.
+ Pseudospatha tanganyicensis livingstoniana (Bourguignat, 1883) — Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 445.
+ Pseudospatha livingstonensis [sic] (Bourguignat, 1883) — Simpson, 1914: 205.
+ Pseudospatha livingstonensis [sic] (Bourguignat, 1883) — Simpson, 1900: 578.
+ Burtonia tanganyicensis (E. Smith, 1880) — Martens, 1897: 257.
+ Burtonia tanganyicensis var. livingstoniana Bourguignat — Martens, 1897: 258.
+ Burtonia livingstoniana Bourg. — Bourguignat, 1889: 61.
+ Burtonia livingstoniana Bourguignat, 1883 — Bourguignat, 1886: 32.
+ Burtonia livingstoniana Bourguignat, 1883 — Bourguignat, 1886: 38.
+ Spatha tanganyicensis Smith, 1880 — E.A. Smith, 1881: 296.
