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Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenidae | Corbicula africana

nominal species Corbicula kirkii Prime, 1867

Corbicula kirkii Prime, 1867 = Corbicula africana

specimen image from publicationPrime, 1867. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8: 66, fig. 12.

= Corbicula africana

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Corbicula fluminalis africana (Krauss, 1848) — Daget, 1998

+ Corbicula fluminalis africana (Krauss, 1848) — Mandahl-Barth, 1988

= Corbicula kirkii Prime — Morton, 1986

= Corbicula kirkii Prime, 1864 — Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

= Corbicula kirkii Prime — Clessin, 1877

= Corbicula kirkii Prime — Prime, 1870

= Corbicula kirkii nov. spec. — Prime, 1867

 
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