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genus Pseudospatha Simpson, 1900: synonymy

Synonymy

Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 20.
Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 32.
Bourguignat, 1886. Esp. Nouv. et Genres Nouv. Lac Oukékérewe et Tanganika: 37.
Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 53.
(homonym of Bonaparte, 1850 [Aves]; renamed Pseudospatha Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Spatha tanganyicensis E.A. Smith, 1880 (orig. desig.) = Pseudospatha tanganyicensis

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 577.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 202.
(new name for Burtonia Bourguignat, 1883)
Type species: Spatha tanganyicensis E.A. Smith, 1880 (orig. desig.) = Pseudospatha tanganyicensis

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Pseudospatha, since 1900.

Pseudospatha — Simpson (1900), Kobelt (1910), Simpson (1914), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Thiele (1934), ... Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Zieritz et al. (2013), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Burtonia — E.A. Smith (1904), E.A. Smith (1906)
Mutela — Daget (1998)

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