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

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Bivalvia | ... | Sphaerioidea | Sphaeriidae | Euperinae | Eupera

species Eupera ferruginea (Krauss, 1848): synonymy
     0 specimens + 2 Genbank vouchers

Cyclas ferruginea Krauss, 1848
Krauss, 1848. Südafrik. Moll.: 7, pl. 1, fig. 7.

Eupera ferrugineaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Mandahl-Barth (1968), Mandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), Mansur & Meier-Brook (2000), ... Voode (2017), Clewing et al. (2020), Saito et al. (2022), Clewing et al. (2022), Bespalaya et al. (2023)
Eupera cf. ferrugineaBespalaya et al. (2023)

Pisum parasiticum Deshayes, 1854
Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 280.

Eupera parasiticaPallary (1909), Pallary (1924), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Eupera ferrugineaMandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), Mansur & Meier-Brook (2000)

Eupera jickelii Bourguignat, 1883
‘Kraus’ Jickeli, 1874. Nova Acta Dtsch. Akad. Naturf. 37(1): 293, pl. 11, figs. 17 [as ‘Limosina ferruginea’]. [in part]
Bourguignat, 1883. Hist. Malac. Abyssinie: 134.

Eupera jickeliiPallary (1909)
Eupera parasiticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Eupera ferrugineaDaget (1998)

Eupera letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1883
Bourguignat, 1883. Hist. Malac. Abyssinie: 134.

Eupera letourneuxiPallary (1909), Pallary (1924), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Eupera ferrugineaDaget (1998)

Eupera lhotelleriei Pallary, 1924
Pallary, 1924. Mém. Inst. Égypte 7 (n.s.): 40.
(intro'd as syn of Eupera letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1883)

Eupera letourneuxiPallary (1924)
Eupera ferrugineaDaget (1998)

Eupera mediafricana Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927
Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927. Bull. AMNH 53: 355, figs. 79a-f, 80a.

Eupera mediafricanaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Eupera ferrugineaMandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998)
Eupera sturanyiMansur & Meier-Brook (2000)

Eupera mussolinii Piersanti, 1940
Piersanti, 1940. unknown publication: 241, figs. 59-62.

Eupera ferrugineaDaget (1998)

Limosina ferruginea Jickeli, 1874
‘Kraus’ Jickeli, 1874. Nova Acta Dtsch. Akad. Naturf. 37(1): 293, pl. 11, figs. 17. [in part]
(reference to Cyclas ferruginea Krauss, 1848)

Eupera jickeliiPallary (1909)
Eupera parasiticaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Eupera parasiticaPallary (1909), Pallary (1924), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Eupera jickeliiPallary (1909)
Eupera letourneuxiPallary (1909), Pallary (1924), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Eupera ferrugineaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Mandahl-Barth (1968), Mandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), Mansur & Meier-Brook (2000), ... Voode (2017), Clewing et al. (2020), Saito et al. (2022), Clewing et al. (2022), Bespalaya et al. (2023)
Eupera mediafricanaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Eupera sturanyiMansur & Meier-Brook (2000)
Eupera cf. ferrugineaBespalaya et al. (2023)

 
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