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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Iridinidae | Aspathariinae genus Chambardia Bourguignat in Servain, 1890: species
6 available nominal genus synonyms (8 total synonyms) | cladomics  Chambardia bourguignati (Bourguignat, 1886)
syonymy (7 available, 9 total) | specimens (43)
Range: Lake Victoria Basin and adjacent streams, Africa. Also coastal streams in Tanzania. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Chambardia flava (Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927)
syonymy (2 available, 5 total) | specimens (68)
Range: Upper Congo, including Lake Bangweulu, DRC and Zambia, Africa. (Afrotropics)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Chambardia letourneuxi Bourguignat in Servain, 1890
syonymy (6 available, 8 total) | specimens (10)
Range: Known only from the lower Nile, Egypt. Possibly extinct. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Extinct
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Chambardia moutai (Dartevelle, 1939)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (22)
Range: Known only from the Cunene River, Angola. (Afrotropics)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Chambardia nyassaensis (Lea, 1864)
syonymy (6 available, 6 total) | specimens (38)
Range: Disjunct in both Lakes Malawi and Tanganyika, Malawi, Tanzania, and the DRC. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Chambardia petersi (Martens, 1860)
syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (18)
Range: Zambezi River, south to Transvaal, Africa. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Chambardia rubens (Lamarck, 1819)
syonymy (16 available, 40 total) | specimens (281)
Range: From Senegal and Niger rivers, through the Lake Chad Basin to the Nile, Africa. (Afrotropics)
Genbank sequences: COI, COII, mtGenome
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Chambardia trapezia (Martens, 1897)
syonymy (3 available, 5 total) | specimens (45)
Range: Lake Victoria, Lake Albert and the Victoria Nile, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Data Deficient
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Chambardia wahlbergi (Krauss, 1848)
syonymy (18 available, 23 total) | specimens (255 + 1 Genbank voucher)
Range: Widespread from southern Africa north to the Nile and west to Senegal, with several disjunct populations recognized as subspecies. (Afrotropics)
Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Chambardia welwitschii (Morelet, 1868)
syonymy (1 available, 2 total) | specimens (13)
Range: Cuanza Basin and Upper Zambezi, Angola and Zambia. (Afrotropics)
other links: MolluscaBase
|  Chambardia wissmanni (Martens, 1883)
syonymy (4 available, 8 total) | specimens (158)
Range: From the Niger River to the Congo, western and Central Africa. (Afrotropics)
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
other links: MolluscaBase
| Chambardia triangulata (Gautier, 1965) (Tertiary)
syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)
Range: Miocene, Africa.
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