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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Iridinidae | Iridininae | Pleiodon spekii

nominal species Iridina (Pleiodon) spekii Woodward, 1859

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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.

= Pleiodon spekii

Taxonomic Opinions

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

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

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

= Pleiodon spekii (Woodward, 1859) — IUCN, 2010

= Pleiodon spekii Woodward, 1859 — Bogan, 2010

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

= Pleiodon spekii (Woodward, 1859) — Daget, 1998

= Mutela spekei [sic] (Woodward, 1859) — Mandahl-Barth, 1988

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

= Iridina (Cameronia) spekei Woodward, 1859 — Haas, 1969

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

= Iridina (Cameronia) spekii Woodward, 1859 — Leloup, 1950

= Iridina (sec. Cameronia) spekii Woodward — Thiele, 1934

= Iridina (Cameronia) spekii Woodward, 1859 — Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

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

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

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

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

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

= Cameronia spekei [sic] Woodward — Bourguignat, 1889

= Cameronia spekei [sic]Bourguignat, 1888

= Mutela (sec. Cameronia) spekei [sic] (Woodward) — Fischer, 1887

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

+ Cameronia spekei (Woodward, 1859) — Bourguignat, 1886

= Cameronia spekii (Woodward, 1859) — Bourguignat, 1885

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

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

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

= Cameronia spekii (Woodward, 1859) — Bourguignat, 1879

= Platiris (Iridina) spekii (Woodward) — Lea, 1870

= Pleiodon spekii (Woodward, 1859) — Sowerby, 1866

= Iridina (Pleiodon) spekii n. sp. — Woodward, 1859

 
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