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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 choziensis (Preston, 1910): synonymy
     33 specimens + 7 Genbank vouchers

Unio choziensis Preston, 1910
Preston, 1910. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6: 60, pl. 4, fig. 8.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MRAC_56591, Chozi River, a tributariy of the Chambezi River flowing into Lake Bangweolo.

Unio choziensisSimpson (1914)
Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Caelatura [sic] (s.s.) choziensis choziensisHaas (1936), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] choziensisMandahl-Barth (1968), Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Coelatura choziensisDaget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf et al. (2014), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)

Caelatura (s.s.) choziensis bangweolica Haas, 1936
Haas, 1936. Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 431: 56, pl. 5, figs. 1a-d.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio choziensis Preston, 1910)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE SMF_9576, Nordende des Bangweolo See, bei Nsombo, N. Rhodesien.

Caelatura [sic] (s.s.) choziensis bangweolicaHaas (1936), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] choziensisMandahl-Barth (1968), Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Coelatura choziensisDaget (1998), IUCN (2010)
Coelatura choziensis bangweolicaOrtiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020)

Coelatura mweruensis Bolotov et al., 2017
‘Smith’ of Authors.
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1. [in part]
Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio mweruensis E.A. Smith, 1908)

Coelatura choziensisGraf et al. (2014), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Unio choziensisSimpson (1914)
Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Caelatura [sic] (s.s.) choziensis choziensisHaas (1936), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] (s.s.) choziensis bangweolicaHaas (1936), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] choziensisMandahl-Barth (1968), Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Coelatura choziensisDaget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf et al. (2014), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Coelatura choziensis bangweolicaOrtiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020)

 
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