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Publication Bourguignat (1883): attributed nominal species
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Bourguignat, J.R. 1883. Mollusques Fluviatiles du Nyanza Oukéréwé (Victoria-Nyanza), suivis d’une note sur les genres Cameronia et Burtonia du Tanganika.. 23 pp., 1 pl. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Burtonia livingstoniana Bourguignat, 1883
E.A. Smith, 1880. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1880: pl. 31, fig. 8a [as ‘Spatha tanganyicensis’]. [in part]
E.A. Smith, 1881. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1881: 296, pl. 34, fig. 32 [as ‘Spatha tanganyicensis’].
Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 23.
Bourguignat, 1886. Esp. Nouv. et Genres Nouv. Lac Oukékérewe et Tanganika: 38.
Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 32.
Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 59.

Burtonia tanganikana Bourguignat, 1883
E.A. Smith, 1880. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1880: 350, pl. 31, fig. 8 [as ‘Spatha tanganyicensis’].
Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 20, footnote.
Bourguignat, 1886. Esp. Nouv. et Genres Nouv. Lac Oukékérewe et Tanganika: 38.
Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 32.
Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 59.
(new name for Spatha tanganyicensis E.A. Smith, 1880)

Mutela subdiaphana Bourguignat, 1886
Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 5, 17. [nomen nudum]
Bourguignat, 1886. Esp. Nouv. et Genres Nouv. Lac Oukékérewe et Tanganika: 12.
‘Bourguignat’ Pallary, 1909. Mém. Inst. Égypte 6(1): 83.

Unio duponti Bourguignat, 1883
Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 8, figs. 10-12.
(renamed Unio postumus Rochebrune, 1904; homonym of Unio duponti Rochebrune, 1881)
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0064, Nyanza.

Unio edwardsianus Bourguignat, 1883
Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 12, figs. 7-9.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_MP_0018, Nyanza.

Unio grandidieri Bourguignat, 1883
Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 7, figs. 4-6.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0026, Nyanza.

Unio grantianus Bourguignat, 1883
Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 14.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) MNHN_MP_0028, Nyanza.

Unio hauttecoeuri Bourguignat, 1883
Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 5, figs. 1-3 [as ‘hauttecœuri’].
Type(s): FIGURED SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0130, Nyanza Oukéréwe (Victoria Nyanza).

Unio jickelii Bourguignat, 1883
Bourguignat, 1883. Hist. Malac. Abyssinie: 135.
Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 17.

Unio monceti Bourguignat, 1883
Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 15, figs. 13-15.

Unio ruellani Bourguignat, 1883
Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 10, figs. 16-18.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0095, Nyanza.

Unio tanganikanus Bourguignat, 1883
E.A. Smith, 1880. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1880: 351 [as ‘Unio tanganyicensis’].
Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 18.
Bourguignat, 1885. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 2: 7.
Bourguignat, 1885. Notice Prodr. Moll. Giraud Tanganika: 94, 102 [as ‘Grandidieria tanganikana’].
Bourguignat, 1886. Esp. Nouv. et Genres Nouv. Lac Oukékérewe et Tanganika: 22 [as ‘Grandidieria tanganikana’].
(new name for Unio tanganyicensis E.A. Smith, 1880)

Unio ujijiensis Bourguignat, 1883
‘Crosse’ Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 18.
(reference to Unio nyassaensis var. ujijiensis Crosse, 1881)

 
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