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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 aviculaeformis F.R. Woodward, 1991: specimens
3 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Prisodontopsis aviculaeformis — Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Whelan et al. (2011), Graf & Cummings (2011), Graf et al. (2014), Pfeiffer et al. (2018), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Coelatura mweruensis — Bolotov et al. (2017)

Range: Endemic to Lake Mweru and the Luapula in the Upper Congo, Africa.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map

Congo (DRC)
IRSNB_MP_0276 Lac Moero entre Kilwa (port) et l’Ile Kilwa	IRSNB_MP_0277 Lac Moero entre Kilwa (port) et l’Ile Kilwa	IRSNB_MP_0278 Lac Moero riv E de la ... a l’ile Nkole
IRSNB_MP_0279 Lac Moero ... S de Kilwa	MCZ_109804 Lake Moeru, Pweto, Belgian Congo	MRAC_58558 Riv Luapula a Kashiobwe
MRAC_58559 Lac Moero riv E de la ... a l’ile Nkole	MRAC_58560 Lac Moero: Lukonzolwa	MRAC_58562 Lac Moero ... Kisangi
MRAC_58567 Lac Moero riv E de la ... a l’ile Nkole	MRAC_58570 Lac Moero entre Kilwa et l’Ile de Kilwa	IRSNB_MP_0827 Lac Moero a Pweto
IRSNB_MP_0828 Lac Moero entre Kilwa (port) et l’Ile Kilwa	MRAC_57311 Lac Moero entre Kilwa et l’Ile de Kilwa	MRAC_57313 Lac Moero ... S de Kilwa
MRAC_57314 Lac Moero ... S de Kilwa	MRAC_57316 Lac Moero: Pweto	UMMZ_63309 Lake Moeru, Pweto, Belgian Congo, Africa
MRAC_57318 Lac Moero: Pweto	MRAC_57319 Lac Moero entre Kilwa et l’Ile de Kilwa	MRAC_57327 Lac Moero entre Kilwa et l’Ile de Kilwa
MRAC_57328 Lac Moero entre Kilwa et l’Ile de Kilwa	IRSNB_MP_0200 Lac Moero entre Kilwa et Mobanga	MRAC_57329 Lac Moero entre Kilwa et l’Ile de Kilwa
MRAC_57330 Lac Moero entre Kilwa et l’Ile de Kilwa	MRAC_57331 Lac Moero entre Kilwa et l’Ile de Kilwa	MRAC_57332 Lac Moero entre Kilwa et Mobanga
MRAC_57333 Lac Moero ... S de Kilwa	MRAC_80470 Lac Moero entre Kilwa et l’Ile de Kilwa	ANSP_133811 off Lukonzolwa, L. Moero
MRAC_80466 Lac Moero entre Kilwa et l’Ile de Kilwa	MRAC_80467 Lac Moero entre Kilwa et l’Ile de Kilwa
Zambia
UA_20955 Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia	UMMZ_304379 Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia	ANSP_416269 Lake Mweru, near Nchelenge, from Kashikishi to c. 1 km S along beach, Zambia
ANSP_416271 Lake Mweru, near Nchelenge, from Kashikishi to c. 1 km S along beach, Zambia	ANSP_416256 Lake Mweru, Nchelenge, 900 m stretch of beach near fisheries station, Zambia	ANSP_416261 Lake Mweru, Nchelenge, in front of Mweru Water Transport Lodge, Zambia
unknown
MRAC_201230 Lac Moero	MRAC_201231 Lac Moero	MRAC_201232 Lac Moero
MRAC_201233 Lac Moero	MRAC_201234 Lac Moero	MRAC_201235 Lac Moero
MRAC_201236 Lac Moero	MRAC_59946 Lake Mweru	IRSNB_MP_0280 Lac Mweru
UMMZ_110879 Lake Mweru, Central Africa	BMNH_1907-11-11-50-54 Lake Mweru	BMNH_1893-8-23-100 Lake Mweru, Central Africa
BMNH_1893-8-23-101 Lake Mweru, Central Africa

Genbank Vouchers

Zambia

ANSP_416269-Jbb (COI, 28S, SRA) Lake Mweru, near Nchelenge, from Kashikishi to c. 1 km S along beach, Zambia

ANSP_416269-Jdd (COI, 28S) Lake Mweru, near Nchelenge, from Kashikishi to c. 1 km S along beach, Zambia

ANSP_416269-Jz (COI, 28S) Lake Mweru, near Nchelenge, from Kashikishi to c. 1 km S along beach, Zambia

UMMZ_304379-Hz (COI, 28S) Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia

UMMZ_304379-Jaa (COI, 28S) Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia

UMMZ_304379-Jy (COI, 28S) Lake Mweru, N side Kamanda Island, Zambia

ANSP_416269-Jcc (COI, 28S) Lake Mweru, near Nchelenge, from Kashikishi to c. 1 km S along beach, Zambia

UA_20834.1 (COI, 28S)

Page updated: 10:25:49 Fri 30 May 2025

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