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

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Publication E.A. Smith (1892): summary
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Complete Citation

Smith, E.A. 1892. On the shells of the Victoria Nyanza or Lake Oukéréwé. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10(56) (6th series): 121-128. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Mutela bourguignati E.A. Smith, 1892
‘Bourguignat’ E.A. Smith, 1892. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 10(56): 128, pl. 12, fig. 16.
(reference to Mutela bourguignati Bourguignat, 1886)

Mutela bourguignati var. smithi Martens, 1897
‘Bourguignat’ E.A. Smith, 1892. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 10(56): 128, pl. 12, fig. 16 [as ‘Mutela bourguignati’].
Martens, 1897. Besch. Weich. Deutsch Ost Afr. 4: 255.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Mutela bourguignati Bourguignat, 1886)
Type(s): SYNTYPE ZMB_108810, Mbugu, Victoria Nyansa.

 
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