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

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Publication Bourguignat (1885): attributed nominal species
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Bourguignat, J.R. 1885. Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles Recueillis par M. Paul Soleillet dans son Voyage au Choa (Éthiopie Méridionale). 48 pp., 1 pl. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Corbicula callipyga Bourguignat, 1885
Bourguignat, 1885. Moll. Terr. Fluv. Choa: 37, figs. 13-13’.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3442, Lac Aoussa.

Corbicula gravieriana Bourguignat, 1885
Bourguignat, 1885. Moll. Terr. Fluv. Choa: 38, figs. 14-14’.

Corbicula soleilleti Bourguignat, 1885
Bourguignat, 1885. Moll. Terr. Fluv. Choa: 36, figs. 12-12’.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_3536, Lac Aoussa.

Soleilletia abbadiana Bourguignat, 1885
Bourguignat, 1885. Moll. Terr. Fluv. Choa: 34, figs. 15-18.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_23201, Lac Haoussa.

Soleilletia hamyana Bourguignat, 1885
Bourguignat, 1885. Moll. Terr. Fluv. Choa: 35.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3519, Lac Haoussa.

Unio alfierianus Bourguignat, 1885
Bourguignat, 1885. Moll. Terr. Fluv. Choa: 43.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0344, dans le Guebe, affluente l’Oromo (Choa).

Unio dembea Bourguignat, 1885
‘Rossmässler, in: Reeve’ Bourguignat, 1885. Moll. Terr. Fluv. Choa: 38.
(error for Unio dembeae Reeve, 1865)

Unio hamyanus Bourguignat, 1885
Bourguignat, 1885. Moll. Terr. Fluv. Choa: 42.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0154, Lac Haoussa.

Unio ilqi Bourguignat, 1885
‘Soleillet, in litt.’ Bourguignat, 1885. Moll. Terr. Fluv. Choa: 40.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0158, Bords du lac Haoussa, voyage au Choa.

Unio meneliki Bourguignat, 1885
‘Soleillet’ Bourguignat, 1885. Moll. Terr. Fluv. Choa: 41.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0126, lac Haouach, Choa.

Unio soleilleti Bourguignat, 1885
Bourguignat, 1885. Moll. Terr. Fluv. Choa: 39.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0105, Lac Haoussa.

 
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