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Publication Lévèque (1974): summary

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Lévèque, C. 1974. Étude systématique et biométrique des lamellibranches Unionides et Mutelides du Basin Tchadien. Cah. O.R.S.T.O.M., Sér. Hydrobiol. 8: 105-117.

Attributed Nominal Species

Spatha bourguignati Germain, 1906 = Aspatharia dahomeyensis

‘Bourguignat’ of Authors.
Germain, 1906. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 12: 174.
Kobelt, 1911. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 1911: 58.
Lévèque, 1974. Cah. O.R.S.T.O.M., Sér. Hydrobiol. 8: 1009, pl. 2, figs. 5-8.
(misidentified reference to Spatha bourguignati Bourguignat, 1886)

Aspatharia dahomeyensis Lévèque, 1974 = Aspatharia pfeifferiana

‘Lea’ Lévèque, 1974. Cah. O.R.S.T.O.M., Sér. Hydrobiol. 8: ??.
(misidentified reference to Anodonta dahomeyensis Lea, 1859)

Spatha (Leptospatha) pfeifferi Germain, 1907 = Aspatharia dahomeyensis

‘Bernardi’ of Authors.
‘Bernardi’ Germain, 1907. L’Afrique Centrale Française: 560.
‘Bernardi’ Lévèque, 1974. Cah. O.R.S.T.O.M., Sér. Hydrobiol. 8: 110.
(misidentified reference to Margaritana pfeifferiana Bernardi, 1860; error for Margaritana pfeifferiana Bernardi, 1860)

Caelatura teretiuscula Lévèque, 1971 = Nitia mutelaeformis

‘Philippi’ Lévèque, 1971. unknown publication: 275.
Lévèque, 1974. Cah. O.R.S.T.O.M., Sér. Hydrobiol. 8: 106, pl. 1, figs. 14-16.
(misidentified reference to Unio teretiusculus Philippi, 1847)

 
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