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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Coelaturini | Coelatura species Coelatura mesafricana Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: synonymy
10 specimens + 2 Genbank vouchers Caelatura (s.s.) mesafricana Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927
  Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927. Bull. AMNH 53: 402, pl. 32, figs. 2-2a.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) AMNH_72093, Garamba River, 04°10’N, 29°40’E, Belgian Congo [Zaire], Africa.
Cælatura [sic] (s.s.) mesafricana — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Mesafra mesafricana mesafricana — Haas (1936), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] mesafricana — Mandahl-Barth (1968)
Mesafra mesafricana — Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] aegyptiaca gabonensis — Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Coelatura gabonensis — Daget (1998), IUCN (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf et al. (2014)
Coelatura cf. mesafricana — Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020)
Coelatura mesafricana — Graf & Cummings (2021) | |
Mesafra mesafricana stappersi Haas, 1936
 Haas, 1936. Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 431: 84, pl. 7, figs. 2a-b.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Caelatura (s.s.) mesafricana Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MRAC_56762, Riv. Luapula: Kasenga.
Mesafra mesafricana stappersi — Haas (1936), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] mesafricana — Mandahl-Barth (1968)
Caelatura [sic] mweruensis — Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Coelatura gabonensis — Daget (1998), IUCN (2010) | |
Taxonomic History (since 1900)Cælatura [sic] (s.s.) mesafricana — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Mesafra mesafricana mesafricana — Haas (1936), Haas (1969)
Mesafra mesafricana stappersi — Haas (1936), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] mesafricana — Mandahl-Barth (1968)
Mesafra mesafricana — Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] aegyptiaca gabonensis — Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Caelatura [sic] mweruensis — Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Coelatura gabonensis — Daget (1998), IUCN (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf et al. (2014)
Coelatura cf. mesafricana — Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020)
Coelatura mesafricana — Graf & Cummings (2021)
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