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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Unio

species Unio dembeae Reeve, 1865: specimens
     11 available nominal species synonyms (20 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Unio mancus — Graf & Cummings (2007), Graf & Cummings (2011)
Unio dembeae — Van Damme & Van Bocxlaer (2009), Graf & Cummings (2021)
— Araujo et al. (2018)

Range

The Nile and Lake Turkana basins in northeastern Africa.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

Egypt

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Kenya

Sudan

unknown