MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
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Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
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Geography
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freshwater mussels
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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Unionina | Unio caffer
nominal species Unio vaalensis Chaper, 1885
Unio vaalensis Chaper, 1885 = Unio caffer
Chaper, 1885. Bull. Soc. Zool. France 10: 480, pl. 11, figs. 1-3.
SYNTYPES MNHN-IM-2000-1806, la Vaal, Afrique Australe.
Taxonomic Opinions
+ Unio caffer (Krauss, 1848) — Nagel, 2025: 157.
syntypes SMF 3539/2 — South Africa, “dans le Vaal (Afrique australe), auprès de Barclay, à peu de distance des célèbres mines de diamant du Griqualand West [28°32’S 024°31’E] (ex P. Dautzenberg, leg. M. Chaper)
+ Cafferia caffra (Krauss, 1848) — Graf & Cummings, 2011: [45].
+ Cafferia caffra (Krauss, 1848) — Marshall & Fenwick, 2006: 19.
+ Cafferia caffra (Krauss, 1848) — Daget, 1998: 69.
syntypes MNHN_uncat. — Vaal (Afrique australe), pres de Barclay, à peu de distance des mines de diamant de Cirqueland West.
+ Cafferia caffra (Krauss) — Haas, 1969: 155.
+ Unio (Cafferia) caffer Krs., 1848 — Connolly, 1939: 605.
École des Mines, Paris
+ Unio natalensis Lea, 1864 — Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 384.
= Unio (sec. Cafferia) (Group of U. caffer) caffer var. vaalensis Chaper — Simpson, 1914: 576.
= Nodularia (Cafferia) caffra var. vaalensis Chaper — Kobelt, 1910: 85.
= Nodularia (sec. Cafferia) caffer var. vaalensis Chaper — Simpson, 1900: 825.
+ Unio caffer Krauss, 1848 — Sturany, 1899: 627.
+ Unio caffer Krauss, 1848 — E.A. Smith, 1891: 317.
