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Publication Bourguignat (1885): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Bourguignat, J.R. 1885. Notice Prodromique sur les Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles Recueillis par M. Victor Giraud dans les Région Méridionale du Lac Tanganyika. 110 pp. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Cameronia Bourguignat, 1879
Bourguignat, 1879. Descr. Div. Espèces Terr. Fluv. Diff. Genres Moll. Égypte, Abyssinie, Zanzibar, Sénégal, Centre Afrique: 42.
Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 19.
Bourguignat, 1885. Notice Prodr. Moll. Giraud Tanganika: 106.
Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 66.
Bourguignat, 1886. Esp. Nouv. et Genres Nouv. Lac Oukékérewe et Tanganika: 26.
Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 67.
Type species: Iridina (Pleiodon) spekii Woodward, 1859 (orig. desig.) = Pleiodon spekii

Grandidieria Bourguignat, 1885
Bourguignat, 1885. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 2: 4.
Bourguignat, 1885. Notice Prodr. Moll. Giraud Tanganika: 92.
Bourguignat, 1886. Esp. Nouv. et Genres Nouv. Lac Oukékérewe et Tanganika: 15.
Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 41.
(renamed Ruellania Bourguignat, 1885)
Type species: Unio burtoni Woodward, 1859 (subsequent designation) = Grandidieria burtoni

Ruellania Bourguignat, 1885
Bourguignat, 1885. Notice Prodr. Moll. Giraud Tanganika: 92, footnote.
(new name for Grandidieria Bourguignat, 1885)

Attributed Nominal Species

There are 11 available nominal species attributed to this publication (18 total).
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Taxonomic Opinions

Cameronia giraudi = Pleiodon spekii

Cameronia revoiliana = Pleiodon spekii

Cameronia spekii (Woodward, 1859) = Pleiodon spekii
+ Pleiodon spekei E.A. Smith, 1880

Grandidieria burtoni (Woodward)

Grandidieria corbicula sp. nov. = Grandidieria burtoni

Grandidieria cyrenopsis Bourguignat = Grandidieria burtoni

Grandidieria elongata spec. nov. = Grandidieria burtoni

Grandidieria giraudi spec. nov. = Grandidieria burtoni

Grandidieria granulosa sp. nov. = Grandidieria burtoni

Grandidieria gravida Bourguignat, 1885 = Grandidieria burtoni

Grandidieria horei (Smith) = Coelatura horei

Grandidieria incarnata sp. nov. = Grandidieria burtoni

Grandidieria mira spec. nov. = Grandidieria burtoni

Grandidieria rostrata Bourguignat, 1885 = Grandidieria burtoni

Grandidieria rotundata Bourguignat, 1885 = Grandidieria burtoni

Grandidieria servainiana Bourguignat, 1885 = Grandidieria burtoni
+ Unio burtoni E.A. Smith, 1881

Grandidieria smithi Bourguignat = Grandidieria burtoni
+ Unio burtoni E.A. Smith, 1881

Grandidieria tanganikana (Bourguignat, 1885) = Grandidieria burtoni
+ Unio tanganyicensis E.A. Smith, 1880

Grandidieria thomsoni (Smith) = Grandidieria burtoni

Grandidieria ujijensis [sic] Bourguignat = Nyassunio ujijiensis
+ Unio nyassaensis var. tanganyicensis E.A. Smith, 1881

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