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Publication Bourguignat (1889): summary
publication summary Complete CitationBourguignat, J.R. 1889. Mélanidées du Lac Nyassa suivies d’un aperçu comparatif sur la faune malacologique de ce lac avec celle du grand Lac Tanganika. Bulletins de la Société Malacologique de France 6: 1-66. Available electronically.
Attributed Nominal SpeciesAetheria tanganikana Bourguignat, 1889
‘Lamarck’ E.A. Smith, 1880. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1880: 352 [as ‘Aetheria elliptica’].
Bourguignat, 1889. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 6: 65. | |
Corbicula astartinella Germain, 1906
Bourguignat, 1889. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 6: 38. [nomen nudum]
‘Bourguignat’ Germain, 1906. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 12: 584. | |
Corbicula giraudi Germain, 1906
 Bourguignat, 1889. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 6: 38. [nomen nudum]
Germain, 1906. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 12: 584.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3530, Karunga. | |
Corbicula nyassana Bourguignat, 1889
‘Parreyss’ E.A. Smith, 1877. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1877: 718.
Bourguignat, 1889. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 6: 37. | |
Spathella nyassana Bourguignat, 1889
Bourguignat, 1889. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 6: 39.
Bourguignat, 1889. Moll. Afrique Équatoriale: 196.
(new name for Spatha nyassaensis Lea, 1864) | |
Unio hermosus Bourguignat, 1889
 ‘Lea’ E.A. Smith, 1881. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1881: pl. 34, fig. 34b. [in part]
Bourguignat, 1889. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 6: 38.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1880-12-20-130, Lake Nyassa. | |
Unio nyassanus Bourguignat, 1889
Bourguignat, 1889. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 6: 38.
(new name for Unio nyassaensis Lea, 1864) | |
Unio vynckei Bourguignat, 1886
 Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 8, 18 [as ‘vinckei’].
Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 45.
Bourguignat, 1889. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 6: 60.
(correct name for Unio vinckei Bourguignat, 1886)
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0190, Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika). | |
Unio vysseri Bourguignat, 1886
Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 8, 21 [as ‘visseri’].
Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 45.
Bourguignat, 1889. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 6: 60.
(correct name for Unio visseri Bourguignat, 1886) | |
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