MolluscaBase taxon details
Mytilopsis africana (van Beneden, 1835)
505328 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:505328)
accepted
Species
Dreissena africana van Beneden, 1835 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Dreissena cyanea van Beneden, 1838 · unaccepted
Dreissena gibberosa Preston, 1909 · unaccepted
Dreissensia gibberosa Preston, 1909 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Praxis ethericola Rochebrune, 1883 · unaccepted
Tichogonia africana (van Beneden, 1835) · unaccepted
(of Dreissena africana van Beneden, 1835) van Beneden, [P. J.]. (1835). Une nouvelle espèce du genre <i>Dreissena</i>, qui vient d'être rapportée du Sénégal. <em>Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.</em> 2:167-169., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2880349 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mytilopsis africana (van Beneden, 1835). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505328 on 2025-04-30
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original description
(of Dreissena africana van Beneden, 1835) van Beneden, [P. J.]. (1835). Une nouvelle espèce du genre <i>Dreissena</i>, qui vient d'être rapportée du Sénégal. <em>Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.</em> 2:167-169., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2880349 [details]
original description (of Praxis ethericola Rochebrune, 1883) Rochebrune, A.-T. de. (1883). Diagnoses de mollusques nouveaux propres à la Sénégambie. <em>Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris.</em> (7) /: 177-182., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31636711
page(s): 181 [details]
original description (of Dreissensia gibberosa Preston, 1909) Preston, H. B. (1909). New land and freshwater shells from West Africa. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (8) 4 (20): 87-91, pl. 4. London. [1 August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22097460
page(s): 89, pl. 4, fig. 4 [details]
basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Pilsbry, H. A. & Bequaert, J. C. (1927). The aquatic mollusks of the Belgian Congo: with a geographical and ecological account of Congo malacology. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 53: 69-602., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/975 [details] Available for editors
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identification resource Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). <i>Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola</i>. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.
page(s): 970-971 [details]
original description (of Praxis ethericola Rochebrune, 1883) Rochebrune, A.-T. de. (1883). Diagnoses de mollusques nouveaux propres à la Sénégambie. <em>Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris.</em> (7) /: 177-182., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31636711
page(s): 181 [details]
original description (of Dreissensia gibberosa Preston, 1909) Preston, H. B. (1909). New land and freshwater shells from West Africa. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (8) 4 (20): 87-91, pl. 4. London. [1 August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22097460
page(s): 89, pl. 4, fig. 4 [details]
basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Pilsbry, H. A. & Bequaert, J. C. (1927). The aquatic mollusks of the Belgian Congo: with a geographical and ecological account of Congo malacology. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 53: 69-602., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/975 [details] Available for editors
[request]identification resource Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). <i>Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola</i>. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.
page(s): 970-971 [details]
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