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

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species Sphaerium nyanzae E.A. Smith, 1892: synonymy
     4 specimens

Sphaerium nyanzae E.A. Smith, 1892
E.A. Smith, 1892. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 10: 383 [as ‘nyanzæ’].

Sphaerium nyanzaePilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Van Damme & Van Bocxlaer (2009)
Sphaerium nyanzae nyanzaeMandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010)

Pseudocorbicula alluaudi Dautzenberg, 1908
Dautzenberg, 1908. J. de Conch. 56: 32, pl. 2, figs. 8-10.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3494, Kavirondo, Victoria Nyanza.

Pseudocorbicula alluaudiPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Thiele (1934)
Sphaerium nyanzae alluaudiMandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010)

Sphaerium iredalei Preston, 1912
Preston, 1912. unknown publication: 328, pl. 17, fig. 3.

Sphaerium iredaleiPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Sphaerium nyanzae alluaudiDaget (1998)

Sphaerium nyanzae Martens, 1897
Martens, 1897. Besch. Weich. Deutsch Ost Afr. 4: 260, pl. 7, fig. 10.
(reference to Sphaerium nyanzae E.A. Smith, 1892)

Sphaerium victoriae victoriaeMandahl-Barth (1988)
Sphaerium nyanzae nyanzaeDaget (1998)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Sphaerium nyanzaePilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Van Damme & Van Bocxlaer (2009)
Pseudocorbicula alluaudiPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Thiele (1934)
Sphaerium iredaleiPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Sphaerium nyanzae nyanzaeMandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010)
Sphaerium victoriae victoriaeMandahl-Barth (1988)
Sphaerium nyanzae alluaudiMandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010)

 
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