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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Iridinidae | Aspathariinae | Aspatharia species Aspatharia dahomeyensis (Lea, 1859): synonymy 115 specimens Anodonta dahomeyensis Lea, 1859
Lea, 1859. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 11: 154.
Lea, 1860. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 [O. 7]: 261, pl. 41, fig. 141. Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1965163, Dahomey, West Africa.
Spatha (s.s.) dahomeyensis — Simpson (1900), Kobelt (1910), Simpson (1914) Aspatharia (s.s.) dahomeyensis — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Aspatharia dahomeyensis — Daget (1962), Van Damme (1984), Mandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf & Cummings (2021), Akindele et al. (2023) Aspatharia (s.s.) rugifera rugifera — Haas (1969) | |
Anodonta senegalensis Lea, 1859
Lea, 1859. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 11: 154.
Lea, 1860. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 [O. 7]: 260, pl. 41, fig. 140. (renamed Mutelina senegalica Jousseaume, 1886) Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1965167, Senegal.
Spatha (s.s.) dahomeyensis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Spatha (s.s.) senegalensis — Kobelt (1910) Aspatharia (s.s.) dahomeyensis — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Aspatharia (s.s.) senegalensis — Franc (1949) Aspatharia senegalensis — Daget (1962) — Haas (1969) Aspatharia dahomeyensis — Van Damme (1984), Mandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), IUCN (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011) | |
Mutelina complanata Jousseaume, 1886
 Jousseaume, 1886. Bull. Soc. Zool. France 11: 489, pl. 13, figs. 1-1a. Type(s): TYPES MNHN_MP_0221, Foula Dongo, Niger.
Spatha (s.s.) complanata — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Mutelina complanata — Germain (1907) Spatha (Leptospatha) complanata — Kobelt (1910) Mutela (s.s.) complanata — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela complanata — Franc (1949) Aspatharia complanata — Daget (1962), Daget (1998), Bogan (2010) — Lévèque (1967) Mutela (s.s.) dubia — Haas (1969) Aspatharia dahomeyensis — Van Damme (1984), Mandahl-Barth (1988), IUCN (2010) | |
Mutelina senegalica Jousseaume, 1886 ‘Bourguignat’ Jousseaume, 1886. Bull. Soc. Zool. France 11: 488. (new name for Anodonta senegalensis Lea, 1859)
Spatha (s.s.) dahomeyensis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Aspatharia (s.s.) dahomeyensis — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Aspatharia dahomeyensis — Daget (1998) | |
Spatha (Leptospatha) decorsei Germain, 1904
Germain, 1904. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 469. Germain, 1907. L’Afrique Centrale Française: 557, pl. lith. fig. 5. Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_0309, Territore de Chari, Mamoun, pays de Senoussi.
Spatha (Leptospatha) decorsei — Kobelt (1910) Spatha (s.s.) decorsei — Simpson (1914) Aspatharia (s.s.) decorsei — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Franc (1949) Aspatharia (s.s.) rugifera rugifera — Haas (1969) Aspatharia pfeifferiana — Van Damme (1984), Mandahl-Barth (1988), IUCN (2010) Aspatharia dahomeyensis — Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2011) | |
Spatha (Leptospatha) decorsei var. sinuata Germain, 1904
Germain, 1904. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 469. (homonym of Spatha sinuata Martens, 1883; intro'd as intra-sp. of Spatha (Leptospatha) decorsei Germain, 1904; renamed Spatha decorsei var. persinuata Germain, 1907) Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0202, Territoire du Chari, Mamoun.
Spatha (s.s.) decorsei var. persinuata — Simpson (1914) Aspatharia (s.s.) decorsei var. persinuata — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Aspatharia (s.s.) rugifera rugifera — Haas (1969) Aspatharia dahomeyensis — Daget (1998) | |
Spatha bourguignati Germain, 1906 ‘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 chaiziana — Mandahl-Barth (1988) Aspatharia nigeriensis — Daget (1998) | |
Mutelina complanata var. abbreviata Germain, 1907 Germain, 1907. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 13: 68. (intro'd as intra-sp. of Mutelina complanata Jousseaume, 1886)
— Simpson (1914) Mutela (s.s.) complanata mut. abbreviata — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) dubia — Haas (1969) Mutela dubia — Van Damme (1984) Aspatharia complanata — Daget (1998) | |
Mutelina complanata var. curta Germain, 1907 Germain, 1907. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 13: 68. Germain, 1907. L’Afrique Centrale Française: 574. (intro'd as intra-sp. of Mutelina complanata Jousseaume, 1886)
Mutelina complanata variété curta — Germain (1907) Spatha (s.s.) complanata var. curta — Simpson (1914) Mutela (s.s.) complanata var. curta — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) dubia — Haas (1969) Mutela dubia — Van Damme (1984) Aspatharia complanata — Daget (1998) | |
Mutelina complanata var. elongata Germain, 1907 Germain, 1907. L’Afrique Centrale Française: 573. (intro'd as intra-sp. of Mutelina complanata Jousseaume, 1886)
— Simpson (1914) Mutela (s.s.) complanata mut. elongata — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) dubia — Haas (1969) Aspatharia complanata — Daget (1998) | |
Spatha decorsei var. persinuata Germain, 1907 Germain, 1907. L’Afrique Centrale Française: 558, fig. 93. (new name for Spatha (Leptospatha) decorsei var. sinuata Germain, 1904; intro'd as intra-sp. of Spatha (Leptospatha) decorsei Germain, 1904)
Spatha (s.s.) decorsei var. persinuata — Simpson (1914) Aspatharia (s.s.) decorsei var. persinuata — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Aspatharia (s.s.) rugifera rugifera — Haas (1969) Aspatharia dahomeyensis — Daget (1998) | |
Spatha (Leptospatha) cryptoradiata Germain, 1907 Germain, 1907. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 13: 562. Germain, 1911. Doc. Scientif. Miss. Tilho 2: 50. (misidentified reference to Spatha cryptoradiata Putzeys, 1898)
Aspatharia dahomeyensis — Daget (1998) | |
Spatha (Leptospatha) pfeifferi Germain, 1907 ‘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)
Aspatharia (s.s.) pfeifferiana — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Aspatharia dahomeyensis — Daget (1998) | |
Spatha (Leptospatha) stuhlmanni Germain, 1909 of Authors. Germain, 1909. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 15: 211. Franc, 1949. J. de Conch. 9: 164. (misidentified reference to Spatha stuhlmanni Martens, 1897)
Aspatharia dahomeyensis — Daget (1998) | |
Aspatharia (Aspatharia) pfeifferiana Haas, 1929 Haas, 1929. Zool. Jahresber. 57: 162. (misidentified reference to Margaritana pfeifferiana Bernardi, 1860)
Aspatharia dahomeyensis — Daget (1998) | |
Aspatharia nigeriensis Daget, 1962
 Daget, 1962. J. de Conch. 102: 25, figs. 14-15. Daget, 1998. Cat. Bivalves Africains: 101. Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_0261, Boussa, Nigeria.
Aspatharia nigeriensis — Daget (1962), Daget (1998), Bogan (2010) Aspatharia (Spathopsis) rubens — Haas (1969) Aspatharia dahomeyensis — Van Damme (1984), Mandahl-Barth (1988), IUCN (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011) | |
Aspatharia senegalensis var. protchei Franc, 1949 Franc, 1949. J. de Conch. 9: 162. (misidentified reference to Spathella protchei Rochebrune, 1886)
Aspatharia dahomeyensis — Daget (1998) | |
Margaritifera margaritifera Abwage et al., 2022 ‘Linn.’ Abwage et al., 2022. J. Res. Forest. Wildl. Envir. 14(3): 135, fig. 2. (misidentified reference to Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758)
Aspatharia sp. — Bolotov et al. (2024) Chambardia sp. — Bolotov et al. (2024) | |
Taxonomic History (since 1900)Spatha (s.s.) dahomeyensis — Simpson (1900), Kobelt (1910), Simpson (1914) Spatha (s.s.) complanata — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Mutelina complanata — Germain (1907) Mutelina complanata variété curta — Germain (1907) Spatha (s.s.) senegalensis — Kobelt (1910) Spatha (Leptospatha) complanata — Kobelt (1910) Spatha (Leptospatha) decorsei — Kobelt (1910) Spatha (s.s.) decorsei — Simpson (1914) Spatha (s.s.) decorsei var. persinuata — Simpson (1914) — Simpson (1914), Lévèque (1967), Haas (1969) Spatha (s.s.) complanata var. curta — Simpson (1914) Aspatharia (s.s.) dahomeyensis — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) complanata — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Aspatharia (s.s.) decorsei — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Franc (1949) Aspatharia (s.s.) decorsei var. persinuata — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) complanata mut. abbreviata — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) complanata var. curta — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) complanata mut. elongata — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Aspatharia (s.s.) pfeifferiana — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Aspatharia (s.s.) senegalensis — Franc (1949) Mutela complanata — Franc (1949) Aspatharia dahomeyensis — Daget (1962), Van Damme (1984), Mandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf & Cummings (2021), Akindele et al. (2023) Aspatharia senegalensis — Daget (1962) Aspatharia complanata — Daget (1962), Daget (1998), Bogan (2010) Aspatharia nigeriensis — Daget (1962), Daget (1998), Bogan (2010) Aspatharia (s.s.) rugifera rugifera — Haas (1969) Mutela (s.s.) dubia — Haas (1969) Aspatharia (Spathopsis) rubens — Haas (1969) Aspatharia pfeifferiana — Van Damme (1984), Mandahl-Barth (1988), IUCN (2010) Mutela dubia — Van Damme (1984) Aspatharia chaiziana — Mandahl-Barth (1988) Aspatharia sp. — Bolotov et al. (2024) Chambardia sp. — Bolotov et al. (2024)
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