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Bivalvia | Sphaerioida | Sphaerioidea | Sphaeriidae | Euperinae | Eupera

species Eupera ferruginea (Krauss, 1848): synonymy

0 specimens + 2 Genbank vouchers

Synonymy

Eupera jickelii Bourguignat, 1883

‘Kraus’ Jickeli, 1874. Nova Acta Dtsch. Akad. Naturf. 37(1): 293, pl. 11, figs. 17 [as ‘Limosina ferruginea’]. [in part]
Bourguignat, 1883. Hist. Malac. Abyssinie: 134.

Eupera jickeliiPallary (1909)
Eupera parasiticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Eupera ferrugineaDaget (1998)

Eupera letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1883

Bourguignat, 1883. Hist. Malac. Abyssinie: 134.

Eupera letourneuxiPallary (1909), Pallary (1924), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Eupera ferrugineaDaget (1998)

Eupera lhotelleriei Pallary, 1924

Pallary, 1924. Mém. Inst. Égypte 7 (n.s.): 40.
(intro'd as syn of Eupera letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1883)

Eupera letourneuxiPallary (1924)
Eupera ferrugineaDaget (1998)

Eupera mediafricana Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927. Bull. AMNH 53: 355, figs. 79a-f, 80a.

Eupera mediafricanaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Eupera ferrugineaMandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998)
Eupera sturanyiMansur & Meier-Brook (2000)

Eupera mussolinii Piersanti, 1940

Piersanti, 1940. unknown publication: 241, figs. 59-62.

Eupera ferrugineaDaget (1998)

Limosina ferruginea Jickeli, 1874

‘Kraus’ Jickeli, 1874. Nova Acta Dtsch. Akad. Naturf. 37(1): 293, pl. 11, figs. 17. [in part]
(reference to Cyclas ferruginea Krauss, 1848)

Eupera jickeliiPallary (1909)
Eupera parasiticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Eupera parasiticaPallary (1909), Pallary (1924), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Eupera jickeliiPallary (1909)
Eupera letourneuxiPallary (1909), Pallary (1924), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Eupera mediafricanaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Eupera ferrugineaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Mandahl-Barth (1968), Mandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), Mansur & Meier-Brook (2000), ... Voode (2017), Clewing et al. (2020), Saito et al. (2022), Clewing et al. (2022), Bespalaya et al. (2023)
Eupera sturanyiMansur & Meier-Brook (2000)
Eupera cf. ferrugineaBespalaya et al. (2023)

 
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