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

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Publication Mandahl-Barth (1954): attributed nominal species
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Mandahl-Barth, G. 1954. The freshwater mollusks of Uganda and adjacent territories. Ann. Mus. r. Congo belge 8° Zool. 32: 1-206. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Aspatharia subaequilatera Mandahl-Barth, 1954
‘von Martens’ Mandahl-Barth, 1954. Ann. Mus. r. Congo belge 8° Zool. 32: 153, fig. 82.
(misidentified reference to Spatha subaequilatera Martens, 1887)

Byssanodonta crassa Mandahl-Barth, 1954
Mandahl-Barth, 1954. Ann. Mus. r. Congo belge 8° Zool. 32: 178, fig. 96.

Byssanodonta ovata Mandahl-Barth, 1954
Mandahl-Barth, 1954. Ann. Mus. r. Congo belge 8° Zool. 32: 176, fig. 94.

Caelatura (Zairia) cridlandi Mandahl-Barth, 1954
Mandahl-Barth, 1954. Ann. Mus. r. Congo belge 8° Zool. 32: 135. text fig. 70.
Mandahl-Barth, 1988. Studies on African Freshwater Bivalves: 17, fig. 86.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) MRAC_517603, Lac Victoria, Hannington Baie.

Caelatura hauttecoeuri kyogae Mandahl-Barth, 1954
Mandahl-Barth, 1954. Ann. Mus. r. Congo belge 8° Zool. 32: 134, text fig. 68a.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio hauttecoeuri Bourguignat, 1883)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MRAC_586363, Uganda, Lac Kyoga, near Bugonola.

Corbicula africana albertiana Mandahl-Barth, 1954
Mandahl-Barth, 1954. Ann. Mus. r. Congo belge 8° Zool. 32: 160, fig. 86b.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Cyrena africana Krauss, 1848)

Pisidium fistulosum Mandahl-Barth, 1954
Mandahl-Barth, 1954. Ann. Mus. r. Congo belge 8° Zool. 32: 174, fig. 93.

Pisidium victoriae Mandahl-Barth, 1954
Mandahl-Barth, 1954. Ann. Mus. r. Congo belge 8° Zool. 32: 173, fig. 92.

Spatha caillaudi Mandahl-Barth, 1954
‘von Martens’ Mandahl-Barth, 1954. Ann. Mus. r. Congo belge 8° Zool. 32: 159, fig. 79.
(misidentified reference to Spatha caillaudi Martens, 1866)

Spathopsis trapezia ovoidea Mandahl-Barth, 1988
‘von Martens’ Mandahl-Barth, 1954. Ann. Mus. r. Congo belge 8° Zool. 32: 159, fig. 79 [as ‘Spatha caillaudi’].
Mandahl-Barth, 1988. Studies on African Freshwater Bivalves: 76, fig. 49.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Spatha trapezia Martens, 1897)

Sphaerium stuhlmanni regularis Mandahl-Barth, 1954
Mandahl-Barth, 1954. Ann. Mus. r. Congo belge 8° Zool. 32: 169, fig. 87g, 89d-e.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Sphaerium stuhlmanni Martens, 1897)

Sphaerium victoriae albertianum Mandahl-Barth, 1954
Mandahl-Barth, 1954. Ann. Mus. r. Congo belge 8° Zool. 32: 166, fig. 87c, 88.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Sphaerium victoriae E.A. Smith, 1906)

Sphaerium victoriae lacuum Mandahl-Barth, 1954
Mandahl-Barth, 1954. Ann. Mus. r. Congo belge 8° Zool. 32: 166, fig. 87b, 88d-e.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Sphaerium victoriae E.A. Smith, 1906; homonym of Sphaerium acuminatum lacuum Brooks & Herrington, 1944)
 
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