Bivalvia | Cardiida | Tellinoidea | Donacidae | Galatea bengoensis

nominal species Venus aegyptiaca Chemnitz, 1795

Venus aegyptiaca Chemnitz, 1795 = Galatea bengoensis

specimen image from publicationChemnitz, 1795. Conchyl. Cab. 11: 231, pl 202, fig. 1985-1986 [as ‘aegyptica’]. [non-binomial]
(renamed Galatea chemnitzii Philippi, 1851; renamed Venus nilotica Bernardi, 1860)

Taxonomic Opinions

= Egeria aegyptiaca Philippi, 1851 — Bogan, 2010: [11].

+ Galatea laeta R.A. Philippi, 1848 — Huber, 2010: 692.

= Egeria aegyptiaca (Philippi, 1851) — Daget, 1998: 217.

+ Egeria chemnitzii (Philippi, 1851) — Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 361.

= Galatea ægyptiaca Chemnitz — Pallary, 1909: 76.

= Galatea ægyptiaca Chemn. — Bernardi, 1860: 39, pl. 6, figs. 1-2.

= Galatea ægyptiaca Chem. — Fischer, 1857: 342.