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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 Prisodontopsis mweruensis (E.A. Smith, 1908): specimens
4 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Mweruella mweruensis — Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020)
Prisodontopsis mweruensis — Graf et al. (2014), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Coelatura mweruensis — Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), Huang et al. (2019)

Range: Endemic to the Lake Mweru Basin and the Lower Luapula in the Upper Congo of Africa.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map

Congo (DRC)
ANSP_133834 L. Moero, Lukonzolwa	ANSP_133835 Luapula, River, Kasenga, Belgian Congo	ANSP_133836 Kachiobwe
IRSNB_MP_0764 Luapula a Kasenga	IRSNB_MP_0249 Lac Moero riv E de la ... a l’ile Nkole	IRSNB_MP_0250 Riv. Luapula a Kasenga
IRSNB_MP_0251 Luapula a Kashiobwa	IRSNB_MP_0252 Luapula pres de Kasenga	IRSNB_MP_0253 rive. Luapula a Kasenga
IRSNB_MP_0254 Lac Moero... Lukonzolwa	IRSNB_MP_0765 Lac Moero, Lukonzolwa	IRSNB_MP_0256 Lac Moero a Lukonzolwa
IRSNB_MP_0257 Lac Moero ... Kilwa	IRSNB_MP_0258 rive. Luapula a Kasenga	IRSNB_MP_0776 Luapula a Kasenga
MRAC_56145 Riv. Luapula a Kasenga	MRAC_56146 Riv. Luapula a Kasenga	MRAC_56148 Riv. Luapula a Kasenga
MRAC_56150 Riv. Luapula: Kasenga	MRAC_56153 Riv. Luapula: Kasenga	MRAC_56157 Lac Moero a Lukonzolwa
MRAC_56159 Lac Moero: Pweto	MRAC_56160 Lac Moero: Lukonzolwa	MRAC_56162 Riv. Luapula: Kasenga
MRAC_56164 Riv. Luapula: Kasenga	MRAC_56170 Luapula a Kashiobwa	MRAC_56175 Luapula a Kashiobwa
MRAC_56187 Lac Moero: Pweto	MRAC_56189 Riv. Luapula: Kasenga	MRAC_56200 Lac Moero... Mobanga
MRAC_56201 Lac Moero... Kilwa	MRAC_56203 Lac Moero: Lukonzolwa	MRAC_56204 Riv. Luapula: Kasenga
MRAC_56205 Lac Moero: Lukonzolwa	MRAC_56206 Lac Moero... Lukonzolwa	MRAC_56207 Riv. Luapula: Kasenga
MCZ_109805 Lake Moero, Pweto, Belgian Congo	MCZ_160973 Lukushi River, Manono (Katanga), Belgian Congo	MNHN_MP_1382 Katanga
MCZ_88963 Lake Moero, Pweto, Belgian Congo	MCZ_109885 Luapula River, Kasenga, Katanga, Belgian Congo	MRAC_613918 Kilwa, Lac Moero
MRAC_613985 Muluvia (Katanga)	MRAC_763088 Manono	SMF_10088 Luapula Fluss bei Katanga, Belg. Kongo
SMF_10089 Lokonzolwa am Mweru See Belg. Kongo	SMF_10090 Kashiobwe am Mweru See Belg. Kongo	MRAC_292905 Manono
MRAC_MP_0004 Lac Moero entre Kilwa et Mobanga	MRAC_55511 Lac Moero: Lukonzolwa	MRAC_55514 Lac Moero: Pweto
MRAC_55519 Lac Moero: Kilwa	MRAC_55524 Lac Moero entre Kilwa et l’Ile Kilwa	MRAC_55525 Lac Moero... Lukonzolwa
MRAC_55528 Lac Moero... Kilwa	MRAC_55529 Lac Moero... Lukonzolwa	MRAC_55530 Lac Moero a Lukonzolwa
MRAC_55532 Riv. Luapula a Kasenga	MRAC_55533 Lac Moero... Lukonzolwa	MRAC_55535 Lac Moero... Lukonzolwa
MRAC_55539 Lac Moero... Lukonzolwa	MRAC_55544 Riv. Luapula a Kasenga	MRAC_55546 Lac Moero... Lukonzolwa
MRAC_55547 Lac Moero... Lukonzolwa	MRAC_55548 Lac Moero... Kilwa	MRAC_55550 Lac Moero a Lukonzolwa
IRSNB_MP_0748 Riv. Luapula a Kasenga
Zambia
ANSP_416255 Lake Mweru, Nchelenge, 900 m stretch of beach near fisheries station, Zambia	ANSP_416270 Lake Mweru, near Nchelenge, from Kashikishi to c. 1 km S along beach, Zambia	UA_20952 Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia
UA_20953 Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia	UMMZ_304377 Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia	UMMZ_304378 Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia
INHS_33673 Kalungu River, bridge on Kasama-Mbesuma Ranch Road (D18), Zambia	MRAC_55579 Riv. Luapula... a Mukumbwa
unknown
MNHN_MP_1071 Lake Moero, Katanga, Belgium Congo	MNHN_MP_1067 Lac Moero, Katanga	MRAC_621651 Lac Moero
BMNH_93-8-23-102-103 Lake Mweru	MRAC_792822 Congo: Katanga, Lac Moero	MRAC_201240 Lac Moero
MRAC_201242 Lac Moero	MRAC_201243 Lac Moero	MRAC_201245 Lac Moero
MRAC_20241 Lac Moero	FMNH_115981 Lake Moero, Kasenga, Belgian Congo, Africa	BMNH_1907-11-11-33 Lake Mweru
BMNH_1907-11-11-34 Lake Mweru	MRAC_55549 Lac Moero...
BMNH_1907-11-11-35-49 Lake Mweru

Genbank Vouchers

Zambia

UMMZ_304377-Jv (COI, 28S) Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia

UMMZ_304378-Fu (COI, 28S) Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia

UMMZ_304378-Jw (COI, 28S) Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia

UMMZ_304377-Ht (COI, 28S) Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia

UMMZ_304377-Iu (COI, 28S) Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia

UMMZ_304378-Jx (COI, 28S) Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia

Page updated: 09:53:06 Mon 17 Feb 2025

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