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

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Bivalvia | ... | Parreysiinae | Coelaturini | Coelatura horei

nominal species Unio gerrardi Martens, 1897

E.A. Smith, 1880. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1880: 351 [as ‘U. niloticus Cailliaud’].
Martens, 1897. Besch. Weich. Deutsch Ost Afr. 4: 223, pl. 7, fig. 5.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE ZMB_32910A (by Scholz & Glaubrecht, 2004: 110), Tanganyikasee, Tanzania.

= Coelatura horei

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Coelatura horei (E.A. Smith, 1880) — IUCN, 2010

+ Coelatura horei (Smith, E.A., 1880) — Scholz & Glaubrecht, 2004

+ Coelatura horei (Smith, E.A., 1880) — Daget, 1998

+ Caelatura [sic] (s.s.) horei (Smith, E.A., 1880) — Haas, 1969

+ Caelatura (s.s.) [sic] aegyptiaca f. calathus (Bourguignat, 1885) — Leloup, 1950

+ Caelatura [sic] (s.s.) horei (Smith, E.A., 1880) — Haas, 1936

= Cælatura [sic] (s.s.) gerrardi (von Martens, 1897) — Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927

= Nodularia (sec. Cælatura [sic]) gerrardi (von Martens, 1897) — Simpson, 1914

= Nodularia (Coelatura) gerrardi Martens — Kobelt, 1910

= Unio gerrardi Martens — E.A. Smith, 1904

= Nodularia (sec. Cælatura [sic]) nilotica var. gerrardi (von Martens, 1897) — Simpson, 1900

= Unio gerrardi von Martens, 1897 — Martens, 1897
 
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