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

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Bivalvia | ... | Sphaerioidea | Sphaeriidae | Sphaeriinae | Euglesa

species Euglesa viridaria (Kuiper, 1956): specimens
     1 available nominal species synonym

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Pisidium viridarium — IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Clewing et al. (2013), Bößneck et al. (2016), Kondakov et al. (2020), Groh et al. (2020), Clewing et al. (2020), Saito et al. (2022), Clewing et al. (2022)
Pisidium cf. viridarium — Clewing et al. (2022)
Euglesa (s.s.) viridaria — Bespalaya et al. (2023)

Range

Widespread in Africa, except the west. Also Madagascar.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

There are no specimens for this species in the MUSSELpdb.

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

Ethiopia

UGSB_16730 (ET06/1). (16S, COI, H3) Ethiopia, SNNPR (7.36464, 36.22566)

UGSB_16731 (ET06/2). (16S, COI, H3) Ethiopia, SNNPR (7.36464, 36.22566)

Lesotho

UGSB_10567 (LS01/1). (16S, 28S, COI, H3) Lesotho, Thaba-Tseka (-29.51302°N, 28.52350°E)

Rwanda

UGSB_25763 (RW03/1). (16S, 28S, COI, H3) Rwanda, North (-1.65375, 29.86533)