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nominal species Iridina (Pleiodon) spekii Woodward, 1859

Iridina (Pleiodon) spekii Woodward, 1859 = Pleiodon spekii

Woodward, 1859. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1859: 348, pl. 47, fig. 2.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1859-12-23-8, Lake Tanganyika.

Taxonomic Opinions

= Pleiodon spekii (Woodward, 1859) — Graf & Cummings, 2021: 27.

= Pleiodon spekii (Woodward, 1859) — Zieritz et al., 2013: 277.

= Pleiodon spekii (Woodward, 1859) — Graf & Cummings, 2011: 24.

= Pleiodon spekii (Woodward, 1859) — IUCN, 2010: [web].

= Pleiodon spekii Woodward, 1859 — Bogan, 2010: [web].

= Pleiodon spekii (Woodward, 1859) — Graf & Cummings, 2007: 314.

= Pleiodon spekii (Woodward, 1859) — Daget, 1998: 153.

= Mutela spekei [sic] (Woodward, 1859) — Mandahl-Barth, 1988: 84, figs. 76-77.

= Iridina (Cameronia) spekii Woodward, 1859 — Haas, 1969: 599.

= Iridina (Cameronia) spekei Woodward, 1859 — Haas, 1969: N465, fig. 55:2.

= Pleiodon (Cameronia) spekii (Woodward, 1859) — Pain & Woodward, 1964: 11.

= Iridina (Cameronia) spekii Woodward, 1859 — Leloup, 1950: 101, figs. 40, 48, 51; pl. 5, fig. 2; pl. 8; figs. 1, 7.

= Iridina (sec. Cameronia) spekii Woodward — Thiele, 1934: 843, [1282].

= Iridina (Cameronia) spekii Woodward, 1859 — Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 440, pl. 44, figs. 1-1a.

= Pleiodon (Cameronia) spekii (Woodward, 1859) — Simpson, 1914: 1378.

= Pleiodon spekei [sic] (Woodward) — E.A. Smith, 1904: 102.

= Pleiodon (Cameronia) spekii Woodward, 1859 — Simpson, 1900: 908.

+ Mutela (Iridina) spekei (Woodward, 1859) — Martens, 1897: 256.

+ Cameronia spekei (Woodw.) Bourg. — Sturany, 1894: 302.

= Cameronia spekei [sic] Woodward — Bourguignat, 1889: 64.

= Cameronia spekei [sic] — Bourguignat, 1888: 75.

= Mutela (sec. Cameronia) spekei [sic] (Woodward) — Fischer, 1886: 1004.

= Cameronia spekei [sic] (Woodward, 1859) — Bourguignat, 1886: 67.

+ Cameronia spekei (Woodward, 1859) — Bourguignat, 1886: 38.

= Cameronia spekii (Woodward, 1859) — Bourguignat, 1885: 106.

= Cameronia spekei [sic] (Woodward, 1859) — Bourguignat, 1883: 19.

= Pleiodon spekei [sic] Woodward, 1859 — E.A. Smith, 1881: 296.

= Pleiodon spekei [sic] Woodward — E.A. Smith, 1880: 350.

= Cameronia spekii (Woodward, 1859) — Bourguignat, 1879: 43.

= Platiris (Iridina) spekii (Woodward) — Lea, 1870: 88.

= Pleiodon spekii (Woodward, 1859) — Sowerby, 1866: pl. 1, sp. 2.