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This page reports the specimens in the MUSSELpdb and provides a map if geocodes are known. The taxonomic history reports the record of different names and combinations that have been applied to this species (and its synonyms) since 2007.

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species Leguminaia saulcyi (Bourguignat, 1852): specimens
10 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Leguminaia saulcyi — Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Çek & ŞerefliŞan (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), IUCN (2014), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bogan et al. (2021), Jihad (2023), Liu et al. (2024)
Leguminaia cf. saulcyi — Lopes-Lima et al. (2021)

Range: Syria.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map

Lebanon
MNHN_MP_0161 Tripoli	MNHN_MP_4281 Tripoli de Syrie
Syria
MNHN_MP_4283 Aintab, Syrie	MNHN_MP_4285 Ain tab, Syrie	MNHN_MP_4287 Syrie
MNHN_MP_4329 Ain Tab (Syrie du Nord)	MNHN_MP_4340 Le Nahr el Kebir a Tell Kalaat	SMF_15178 "Asiatische Türkei", Assyrien
MNHN_MP_4349 Le Nahr el Kebir a Tell Kalaat
Turkey
SMF_283044 Türkei: Orontes-Brücke 5 [richtig: 2,5] km südöstlich Samandağ [Hatay]	SMF_4355 Aus dem Kara-Su, [nördlicher] Zufluss des Sees [Amik gölü] von Antiochia [= Antakya/Hatay], Syrien [Türkei]	SMF_4457 Aus dem Orontes [Asi nehri] bei Antiochia [= Antakya/Hatay] [Türkei]
SMF_15175 Aus dem Orontes [Asi nehri] bei Antiochia [= Antakya/Hatay] [Türkei Hatay]

Genbank Vouchers

Turkey

RMBH_biv_177_4 (COI, 16S, 28S) Turkey: Karasu: Orontes Basin (36.580012, 36.430981)

RMBH_biv_177_5 (COI, 16S, 28S) Turkey: Karasu: Orontes Basin (36.580012, 36.430981)

RMBH_biv_177_20 (COI, 16S, 28S) Turkey: Karasu: Orontes Basin (36.580012, 36.430981)

RMBH_biv_177_17 (COI) Turkey: Karasu: Orontes Basin (36.580012, 36.430981)

Page updated: 10:06:17 Tue 01 Jul 2025

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