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

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species Aspatharia ganciniensis (Rochebrune, 1886): synonymy
     23 specimens

Spatha corneola Rochebrune, 1886
Rochebrune, 1886. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 3: 9.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0204, Mokoka (Congo).

Simpson (1900)
Spatha (Leptospatha) corneolaKobelt (1910)
Spatha (s.s.) corneolaSimpson (1914)
Aspatharia (Spathopsis) corneolaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Aspatharia (s.s.) pfeifferianaHaas (1929)
Aspatharia (Spathopsis) rubensHaas (1969)
Aspatharia pfeifferianaDaget (1998), IUCN (2010)

Spatha ganciniensis Rochebrune, 1886
Rochebrune, 1886. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 3: 9.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_0228, Gancini (Congo).

Simpson (1900)
Spatha (Leptospatha) gancinensis [sic]Kobelt (1910)
Spatha (s.s.) corneolaSimpson (1914)
Aspatharia (Spathopsis) corneolaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Aspatharia (s.s.) pfeifferianaHaas (1929)
Aspatharia (Spathopsis) rubensHaas (1969)
Aspatharia pfeifferianaDaget (1998)
Aspatharia semicorrugataGraf & Cummings (2011)
Aspatharia ganciniensisGraf & Cummings (2021)

Spatha semicorrugata Preston, 1909
Preston, 1909. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 4: 90, pl. 4, fig. 7.
Type(s): PARATYPE MRAC_57475, Bas-Congo.

Spatha (Aspatharia) semicorrugataSimpson (1914), Germain (1925)
Aspatharia (s.s.) semicorrugataPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Aspatharia (s.s.) rugifera rugiferaHaas (1969)
Aspatharia pfeifferianaVan Damme (1984)
Aspatharia semicorrugataMandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011)
Aspatharia ganciniensisGraf & Cummings (2021)

Aspatharia (s.s.) chapini Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927
Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927. Bull. AMNH 53: 416, pl. 34, figs. 4-4a; pl. 42, fig. 3.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MRAC_57371, Leopoldville.

Aspatharia (s.s.) chapiniPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Aspatharia (s.s.) pfeifferianaHaas (1929)
Aspatharia (s.s.) mabillei var. chapiniFranc (1949)
Aspatharia (s.s.) rugifera rugiferaHaas (1969)
Aspatharia semicorrugataMandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2006), Graf & Cummings (2011)
Aspatharia rugiferaIUCN (2010)

Spatha carneola Germain, 1909
‘Rochebrune’ Germain, 1909. Arch. Zool. exp. gén. 1: 55.
(error for Spatha corneola Rochebrune, 1886)

Aspatharia pfeifferianaDaget (1998)

Spatha (Leptospatha) gancinensis Kobelt, 1910
‘Rochebrune’ Kobelt, 1910. Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 32: 87.
(error for Spatha ganciniensis Rochebrune, 1886)

Aspatharia pfeifferianaDaget (1998)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Simpson (1900)
Spatha (Leptospatha) corneolaKobelt (1910)
Spatha (Leptospatha) gancinensis [sic]Kobelt (1910)
Spatha (s.s.) corneolaSimpson (1914)
Spatha (Aspatharia) semicorrugataSimpson (1914), Germain (1925)
Aspatharia (Spathopsis) corneolaPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Aspatharia (s.s.) semicorrugataPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Aspatharia (s.s.) chapiniPilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Aspatharia (s.s.) pfeifferianaHaas (1929)
Aspatharia (s.s.) mabillei var. chapiniFranc (1949)
Aspatharia (Spathopsis) rubensHaas (1969)
Aspatharia (s.s.) rugifera rugiferaHaas (1969)
Aspatharia pfeifferianaVan Damme (1984), Daget (1998), IUCN (2010)
Aspatharia semicorrugataMandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011)
Aspatharia rugiferaIUCN (2010)
Aspatharia ganciniensisGraf & Cummings (2021)

 
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