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species Brazzaea anceyi Bourguignat, 1886: specimens
13 available nominal species synonyms (17 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Brazzaea anceyi — Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf & Cummings (2021)

Range

Lake Tanganyika, DRC, Africa.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

species map

Burundi

ANSP_867326
26 km south of Bujumbura, Lake Tanganyika, Bujumbura Province, 03 38 S, 29 09 E

Congo (DRC)

MNHN_MP_0170 Kibanga	MNHN_MP_0170 Kibanga	MNHN_MP_1153 Kibanga
MNHN_MP_0187 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0187 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0191 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_0191 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0205 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0205 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_0224 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0224 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0229 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_0229 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0230 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0230 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_0243 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0243 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0251 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_0251 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0278 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0278 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_0279 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0279 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0289 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_0289 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0310 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)	MNHN_MP_0310 Kibanga (Lac Tanganyika)
MNHN_MP_1154 Lac Tanganyika	MRAC_792120 Lac Tanganyika baie de Kalundu (Uvira)	MRAC_65222 Lac Tanganyika pres Albertville
FMNH_52381 Lake Tanganyika, Tembwe, Central Africa	IRSNB_MP_0190 M’Pala Tanganyika	IRSNB_MP_0192 M’Pala Tanganyika
IRSNB_MP_0194 M’Pala Tanganyika	MRAC_58085 Mpala	MNHN_MP_1155 MPala, Tanganyika
SMF_12223 Tanganyika See, M’Pala	MRAC_58084 Tanganyika... Uvira	MRAC_58084 Tanganyika... Uvira

unknown

IRSNB_MP_0189 Lac Tanganyika	IRSNB_MP_0193 Lac Tanganyika	MRAC_58083 Lac Tanganyika
BMNH_1906-3-9-44 Lake Tanganyika	BMNH_1908-2-3-1-5 Lake Tanganyika	IRSNB_MP_0191 sud du Lac Tanganyika
IRSNB_MP_0188 Tanganyika	MRAC_58080 Tanganyika...	MRAC_58082 Tanganyika...
BMNH_93-5-12-3-3A Victoria Nyanza, Central Africa