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

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Coelaturini | Coelatura

species Coelatura briarti (Dautzenberg, 1901): synonymy
     28 specimens + 1 Genbank voucher

Unio briarti Dautzenberg, 1901
Dautzenberg, 1901. Ann. Soc. Roy. Malac. Belgique 36: 6, pl. 1, figs. 3-4.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MRAC_56372, Ht Congo: Lofoi.

Unio briartiSimpson (1914)
Cælatura [sic] (s.s.) briartiPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Caelatura [sic] (Laevirostris) briartiHaas (1936), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] briartiMandahl-Barth (1988)
Coelatura briartiDaget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)

Unio briarti var. nsendwensis of Authors, unknown year
Putzeys, in MRAC collection of Authors.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio briarti Dautzenberg, 1901)
Type(s): MANUSCRIPT NAME MRAC_56601, Nsendwe.

Unio eduardi Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914
Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914. Rev. Zool. Afr. 4: 68.
(intro'd as syn of Unio briarti Dautzenberg, 1901)
Type(s): MANUSCRIPT NAME BMNH_1968659, Upper Belgian Congo.

Cælatura [sic] (s.s.) briartiPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Caelatura [sic] (Laevirostris) briartiHaas (1936), Haas (1969)
Coelatura briartiDaget (1998)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Unio briartiSimpson (1914)
Cælatura [sic] (s.s.) briartiPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Caelatura [sic] (Laevirostris) briartiHaas (1936), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] briartiMandahl-Barth (1988)
Coelatura briartiDaget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)

 
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