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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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species Aspatharia divaricata (Martens, 1897): synonymy
     1 specimen

Spatha divaricata Martens, 1897
Martens, 1897. Besch. Weich. Deutsch Ost Afr. 4: 250, pl. 7, fig. 15.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) ZMB_108821, Simin Fluss, Victoria Nyansa.

Spatha (s.s.) divaricataSimpson (1900), Kobelt (1910)
Spatha (s.s.) dahomeyensisSimpson (1914)
Aspatharia (s.s.) divaricataPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Aspatharia (s.s.) senegalensis var. protcheiFranc (1949)
Aspatharia (s.s.) subreniformisHaas (1969)
Aspatharia divaricataMandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Van Damme & Van Bocxlaer (2009), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), IUCN (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Spatha (s.s.) divaricataSimpson (1900), Kobelt (1910)
Spatha (s.s.) dahomeyensisSimpson (1914)
Aspatharia (s.s.) divaricataPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Aspatharia (s.s.) senegalensis var. protcheiFranc (1949)
Aspatharia (s.s.) subreniformisHaas (1969)
Aspatharia divaricataMandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Van Damme & Van Bocxlaer (2009), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), IUCN (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021)

 
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