MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704 page(s): 18, pl. 1, fig. 14 [details]
original description
(of Unio charon Preston, 1910) Preston, H.B. (1910). Further additions to the molluscan fauna of Central Africa. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (8) 6 (31): 58-64, pl. 4-5. London. [1 July]. page(s): 60, pl. 4, fig. 5. [details]
original description
(of Unio mashonae Preston, 1910) Preston, H.B. (1910). Further additions to the molluscan fauna of Central Africa. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (8) 6 (31): 58-64, pl. 4-5. London. [1 July]. page(s): 61, pl. 4, fig. 10. [details]
original description
(of Unio africanus I. Lea, 1856) Lea I. (1856). Descriptions of twenty-five new species of exotic uniones. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 8(2): 92-95 [after 29 April; before 18 June]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1935146 page(s): 94 [details]
original description
(of Unio verreauianus I. Lea, 1856) Lea I. (1856). Descriptions of twenty-five new species of exotic uniones. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 8(2): 92-95 [after 29 April; before 18 June]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1935146 page(s): 94 [details]
original description
(of Unio zelebori Dunker, 1866) Dunker, W. & Zelebor, J. (1866). Bericht über die von der Novara-Expedition mitgebrachten Mollusken. <em>Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien.</em> 16: 909-916., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26724138 page(s): 915 [details]
original description
(of Cafferia caffra obesa Connolly, 1925) Connolly, M. (1925). New and little known South African Naiades. Records of the Albany Museum, 3 (4): 261-267, pl. 11-12. Grahamstown [6 March]. page(s): 263, pl. 11, figs 1-4. [details]
original description
(of Unio silongweensis Preston, 1912) Preston, H. B. (1912). <i>Unio silongweensis</i>, a new name for <i>Unio vicinus</i> Preston not Lea. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 26(3): 35. Philadelphia. [July]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1738236 [details]
original description
(of Unio vicinus Preston, 1910) Preston, H.B. (1910). Further additions to the molluscan fauna of Central Africa. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (8) 6 (31): 58-64, pl. 4-5. London. [1 July]. page(s): 60, pl. 4, fig. 7. [details]
original description
(of Unio diminutis I. Lea, 1859) Lea, I. (1859). Descriptions of twenty one new species of exotic Unionidae. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 11: 151-154 [after 31 May 1859]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26310565 page(s): 151 [details]
original description
(of Unio verreauxianus I. Lea, 1867) Lea, I. (1867). Index to Vol. I. to XI. of Observations on the Genus <i>Unio</i>, Together with Description of New Species of the Family Unionidæ. And Descriptions of New Species of the Melanidæ, Paludinæ, Helicidæ, etc. Read before the American Philosophical Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and Published in their Journal, from 1827 to 1863. 63 pp. [with errata and corrigenda section on pp. 61–62]. Printed for the author, Philadelphia. , available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.095533064 [details]
original description
(of Unio vaalensis Chaper, 1885) Chaper M. (1885). Description de quelques espèces nouvelles de coquilles vivantes provenant de l'Afrique Australe et d'Assinie. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 10: 479-486., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11306203#page/503/mode/1up page(s): 480, pl. 11, figs 1-3. [details]
basis of record
Graf, D. L.; Cummings, K. S. (2011). Freshwater mussel (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) richness and endemism in the ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar based on comprehensive museum sampling. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 678(1): 17-36., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-011-0810-5 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Ortmann, A. E. (1918). The anatomy of two African nayades, <i>Unio caffer</i> and <i>Spatha wahlbergi</i>. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 31(3): 75-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42799799 page(s): 75-77 [details]
additional source
Connolly, M. (1939). A monographic survey of South African non-marine Mollusca. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 33: 1-660. page(s): 605 [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference
Daget J. (1998). <i>Catalogue raisonné des mollusques bivalves d'eau douce africains</i>. 329 pp. Leiden: Backhuys / Paris: Editions de l'ORSTOM. , available online at http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers14-12/010016420.pdf page(s): 68 [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality South Africa, Natal, in rivers [details]
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