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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionida | Etherioidea | Iridinidae | Iridininae | Mutela species Mutela soleniformis Bourguignat, 1886: synonymy 18 specimens Iridina exotica E.A. Smith, 1880 ‘Lamarck’ of Authors. E.A. Smith, 1880. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1880: 350. E.A. Smith, 1881. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1881: 296. Crosse, 1881. J. de Conch. 29: 292. E.A. Smith, 1904. Proc. Malac. Soc. London 6(2): 101. Dartevelle & Schwetz, 1948. Mém. Inst. Royal Colonial Belge: 52. (misidentified reference to Iridina exotica Lamarck, 1819)
Mutela exotica — E.A. Smith (1904) Mutela (s.s.) soleniformis — Leloup (1950) Mutela soleniformis — Mandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998) | |
Mutela bridouxi Bourguignat, 1886
Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 24, 25. Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 49, pl. 22, fig. 1. Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0184, Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika).
Mutela (s.s.) exotica — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Mutela bridouxi — E.A. Smith (1904) Mutela (s.s.) exotica var. bridouxi — Kobelt (1910) Mutela (s.s.) soleniformis — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Leloup (1950) Mutela (s.s.) nilotica — Haas (1969) Mutela soleniformis — Daget (1998) | |
Mutela jouberti Bourguignat, 1886
Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 24, 28. Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 51, pl. 23, fig. 1. Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0235, Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika).
Mutela (s.s.) nilotica — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1969) Mutela jouberti — E.A. Smith (1904) Mutela (s.s.) nilotica var. jouberti — Kobelt (1910) Mutela (s.s.) nilotica var. moineti — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) soleniformis forme moineti — Leloup (1950) Mutela soleniformis — Daget (1998) | |
Mutela lavigeriana Bourguignat, 1886
Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 24, 26. Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 49. Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_0218, Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika).
Mutela lavigerina [sic] — Simpson (1900) Mutela lavigeriana — E.A. Smith (1904), Simpson (1914) Mutela (s.s.) lavigeriana — Kobelt (1910), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) soleniformis — Leloup (1950) Mutela (s.s.) nilotica — Haas (1969) Mutela soleniformis — Daget (1998) | |
Mutela moineti Bourguignat, 1886
Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 24, 27. Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 49. Germain, 1911. Doc. Scientif. Miss. Tilho 2: 211, footnote, pl. 3, fig. 1. Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0287, Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika).
Mutela moineti — Simpson (1900), E.A. Smith (1904), Simpson (1914) Mutela (s.s.) nilotica var. moineti — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) soleniformis forme moineti — Leloup (1950) Mutela (s.s.) nilotica — Haas (1969) Mutela soleniformis — Mandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998) | |
Mutela monceti Bourguignat, 1886
Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 25, 29. Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 49. Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0259, Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika).
Mutela monceti — E.A. Smith (1904) Mutela (s.s.) monceti — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) soleniformis forme moineti — Leloup (1950) — Haas (1969) Mutela soleniformis — Daget (1998) | |
Mutela soleniformis Bourguignat, 1886
Bourguignat, 1886. Esp. Nouv. et Genres Nouv. Lac Oukékérewe et Tanganika: 25. Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 24. Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 49, pl. 22, fig. 2-3. Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_0304, Tanganyika.
Mutela (s.s.) exotica — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Mutela soleniformis — E.A. Smith (1904), Mandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf & Cummings (2021) Mutela (s.s.) exotica var. soleniformis — Kobelt (1910) Mutela (s.s.) soleniformis — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Leloup (1950) Mutela (s.s.) nilotica — Haas (1969) | |
Mutela visseri Bourguignat, 1886
Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 25 [as ‘vysseri’], 31. (incorrect original spelling of Mutela vysseri Bourguignat, 1886) Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_0314, Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika).
Mutela (s.s.) nilotica — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1969) Mutela (s.s.) nilotica var. moineti — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) soleniformis forme moineti — Leloup (1950) Mutela soleniformis — Daget (1998) | |
Mutela vysseri Bourguignat, 1886 Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 25, 31 [as ‘visseri’]. Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 51, pl. 23, figs. 2-3. (correct name for Mutela visseri Bourguignat, 1886)
Mutela (s.s.) nilotica — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1969) Mutela vysseri — E.A. Smith (1904) Mutela (s.s.) nilotica var. vysseri — Kobelt (1910) Mutela (s.s.) nilotica var. moineti — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) soleniformis forme moineti — Leloup (1950) Mutela soleniformis — Daget (1998) | |
Mutela nilotica Crosse, 1881 ‘Cailliaud’ Crosse, 1881. J. de Conch. 29: 131. (misidentified reference to Iridina nilotica Cailliaud, 1823)
Mutela soleniformis — Daget (1998) | |
Mutela lavigerina Simpson, 1900 ‘Bourguignat’ Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 906. ‘Bourguignat’ Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 1367. (error for Mutela lavigeriana Bourguignat, 1886) | |
Taxonomic History (since 1900)Mutela (s.s.) exotica — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Mutela (s.s.) nilotica — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1969) Mutela lavigerina [sic] — Simpson (1900) Mutela moineti — Simpson (1900), E.A. Smith (1904), Simpson (1914) Mutela exotica — E.A. Smith (1904) Mutela bridouxi — E.A. Smith (1904) Mutela jouberti — E.A. Smith (1904) Mutela lavigeriana — E.A. Smith (1904), Simpson (1914) Mutela monceti — E.A. Smith (1904) Mutela soleniformis — E.A. Smith (1904), Mandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf & Cummings (2021) Mutela vysseri — E.A. Smith (1904) Mutela (s.s.) exotica var. bridouxi — Kobelt (1910) Mutela (s.s.) nilotica var. jouberti — Kobelt (1910) Mutela (s.s.) lavigeriana — Kobelt (1910), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) exotica var. soleniformis — Kobelt (1910) Mutela (s.s.) nilotica var. vysseri — Kobelt (1910) Mutela (s.s.) soleniformis — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Leloup (1950) Mutela (s.s.) nilotica var. moineti — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) monceti — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927) Mutela (s.s.) soleniformis forme moineti — Leloup (1950) — Haas (1969)
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