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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

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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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Iridinidae | Aspathariinae | Chambardia

species Chambardia wahlbergi (Krauss, 1848): specimens
     23 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Chambardia wahlbergiGraf & Cummings (2007), Hoeh et al. (2009), Van Damme & Van Bocxlaer (2009), IUCN (2010), ..., Wu et al. (2020), Sano et al. (2020), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Chambardia wahlbergi wahlbergiGraf & Cummings (2007)
Chambardia wahlbergi guillainiGraf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010)
Chambardia wahlbergi hartmanniGraf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010)
Chambardia wahlbergi tabulaGraf & Cummings (2007)
Chambardia tabulaVan Damme & Van Bocxlaer (2009)

Range: Widespread from southern Africa north to the Nile and west to Senegal, with several disjunct populations recognized as subspecies.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map


Angola

specimen
UF_93225

Rio Cunene, Capelongo, Angola

specimen
UF_225822

Rio Cunene, Capelongo, Angola

 

Botswana

specimen
ANSP_185374

Thamlakane River at Ma, Zululand, Union S. Africa

   

Burkina Faso

specimen
MCZ_288394

Volta Blanche, 53 km fr, Ouagadougou at bridge on rd. to Fada N’Gourma, Ivory Coast

specimen
MNHN_MP_0933

Barrage de Pabre (Ouagadougou)

specimen
MNHN_MP_0940

Lac de Hte Volta, pres de Ouagadougou


Cameroon

specimen
BMNH_1911-10-27-2

River Logone, South of Lake Chad

   

Chad

specimen
MNHN_MP_0926

Djourab

specimen
MNHN_MP_0936

Territoire du Chari

specimen
MNHN_MP_0946

50 km ENE d’ Armathie, Tchad

specimen
MNHN_MP_0947

Le Bas Chari

specimen
MNHN_MP_0959

Chari

specimen
BMNH_MP_252

Lake Chad


Congo (DRC)

specimen
MCZ_98885

Lake Kivu, Idjgwi Isl., Belgian Congo

   

Ethiopia

specimen
MNHN_MP_0173

Lac Abbay; Rives da Lac Rodolphe

specimen
USNM_215179

Lake Stefanie, Abyssinia

specimen
ANSP_81212

Lake Stefanie, Brit. E. Africa

specimen
ANSP_81217

Lake Stefanie, Brit. E. Africa

specimen
MNHN_MP_0925

Nil Bleu, Abyssinie

 

Ghana

specimen
ZMB_MP_0038

Abetifi

specimen
ANSP_276551

Nungua, near Legon, Accra, Ghana

specimen
INHS_79668

ephemeral pools, Mole National Park, West Gonja, Ghana, Africa

specimen
MNHN_MP_0938

Reservoir de Nungua pres Accra, Ghana

specimen
MNHN_MP_0941

Reservoir de Nungua pres Accra, Ghana

specimen
MNHN_MP_0951

Reservior de Nungua pres d’ Accra, Ghana

specimen
MNHN_MP_0960

Reservior de Nungua pres d’ Accra, Ghana

specimen
BMNH_MP_233

Ada Pond, Gold Coast

 

Kenya

specimen
BMNH_1913-12-18-59-60

Pokomo, Kombe, British East Africa

specimen
BMNH_MP_390

dry lake bed NE of Baricho

specimen
BMNH_MP_395

Lake Rudolph, about 25 miles along the Lodwa [?] - Ferguson Gulf Road

specimen
SMF_12209

Peccetoni See, Witu-Land, Ost, Africa [Lake Peccatoni near mouth of Tana River]

specimen
BMNH_MP_364

Taru Desert, British East Africa

specimen
ANSP_81211

Boran, British East Africa

specimen
FMNH_21465

Lake Victoria Nyanza

specimen
ANSP_81216

Boran, British East Africa

specimen
ANSP_81214

Lake Rudolf, British East Africa

specimen
ANSP_81215

near Magois, British E Africa

specimen
BMNH_93-12-22-107

Lake Somite, Tana Valley, Koncholoro

specimen
BMNH_93-12-22-108

Swamps of the Khilife River

specimen
BMNH_MP_178

Ramisi River, Kenya

specimen
AMNH_179161

oxbow, near Tana River, near Mnazini, Kenya, East Africa

specimen
AMNH_136305

Tana River, Kenya

specimen
MRAC_793982

Kenya: Aruba Dam, 15 N of Mombasa

specimen
MNHN_MP_0923

Lac Rodolphe

specimen
USNM_679432

Aruba Dam, Kenya

specimen
USNM_679433

Aruba Dam, Tsave Nat’l Park, Kenya

specimen
USNM_707031

Mombasa, Kenya

specimen
BMNH_93-12-22-104

Tana River, Lake Dumi

specimen
BMNH_1913-12-18-58

Jilore, near Malindi

specimen
DMNH_30347

Aruba Dam, Kenya

 

Malawi

specimen
SMF_3470

Nyassa See

specimen
ANSP_359783

Monkey Bay, Mangochi Road, Malawi

specimen
MRAC_57521

N. Nyassa, Karonga

specimen
BMNH_1902-1-24-12-13

Lake Chiuta, SE of Lake Nyassa

specimen
BMNH_MP_225

Lake Nyassa, NW Nyassa

specimen
BMNH_1904-12-7-1-2

Shire River, Chiromo, Nyasaland

specimen
BMNH_1937-12-30-13546-13547

Lake Nyasa

specimen
BMNH_1908-3-9-1-2

Kombi, Ruo River, affluent of the Shire River at Chiromo, British. Cent. Afr.

 

Mali

specimen
MNHN_MP_0255

Sudan Francais

specimen
MNHN_MP_0929

Soudan francais

specimen
MNHN_MP_0930

Soudan francais

specimen
MNHN_MP_0944

Soudan francias

specimen
MNHN_MP_0945

Soudan

specimen
MNHN_MP_0948

Soudan francias


Mauritania

specimen
MNHN_MP_0935

Hassi Atile, au pied du Tamga, Adrar Mauritanien

specimen
MNHN_MP_0956

Adror mauritanien, Arouala, neolithic, 20°57’04”N; 12°51’15”W

 

Mozambique

specimen
ZMB_4652

Zambeze, Tete Mosambik

specimen
ZMB_MP_0010

Komatie Fluss [?], Mosambik

specimen
ZMB_41765

Hchongore, bei Delagoa bai, Mosambik

specimen
SMF_12186

Delagoa Bay, Natal

specimen
SMF_10397

Cheringoma Farm, Station Inhaminga der TZR (Trans Zambesian Railway) von Beira nach Caia etwa 100 km sud d Zambesi u 175 kn von der Kuste von Mozambique, Port O. Afrika

specimen
USNM_126961

Tete, Mozambique

specimen
AMS_127029

Tette, Mozambique

specimen
DMNH_14875

Mocambique, Africa

 

SMF_10397a Cheringoma Farm, Station Inhaminga der TZR (Trans Zambesian Railway) von Beira nach Caia etwa 100 km sud d Zambesi u 175 kn von der Kuste von Mozambique, Port O. Afrika


Nigeria

specimen
ZMB_MP_0001

Rikwa Fl, in Nigeria

specimen
ZMB_17667

Ngadda Fl.,

specimen
SMF_12180

Schillem am Gongola Fl., N Nigerien

specimen
MNHN_MP_0928

Boussa, northern Nigeria

specimen
BMNH_MP_208

Gambaroo, Yaou (or Geou) River, now the Komadugu - Yoba River, Lake Chad, “R. Gammaroo” NE Nigeria

 

Senegal

specimen
SMF_12181

Rufisque am Senegal

specimen
MNHN_MP_0163

Marigot du Sengal

specimen
MNHN_MP_0939

Langalkam, Dakar


Sierra Leone

specimen
IRSNB_MP_0519

Sierra Leon

specimen
BMNH_1965191

Sierra Leone

specimen
BMNH_1965190

Sierra Leone


Somalia

specimen
SMF_9522

Somaliland

specimen
CM_66654

Somalia

specimen
MNHN_MP_0903

Brava, Cote de Comal...

specimen
MNHN_MP_0953

Côte d’ Afrique, de Zenzibar

specimen
BMNH_MP_243

48 km SW Kismayo, Somalia

specimen
BMNH_85-6-5-19

Interior of Somali Country


South Africa

specimen
SMF_12184

Natal

specimen
SMF_12185

Transvaal

specimen
SMF_12193

Tumpel d Gudzana, Sabie Gebiel, bei Mabonis, George’s Kraal, 20 km nv Satara, O. Transvaal

specimen
SMF_12194

Tumpel im Trockenbelt des Baches Malashlungu, 4 m von Lower, Sabia Camp, Kruger Park, Ost. Transvaal

specimen
SMF_12187

Apies River, Pretoria, Transvaal

specimen
SMF_12191

Ufertümpel des Sabie River bei Lower Sabie Camp, Ost, Transvaal

specimen
SMF_12192

Ufertümpel des Sabie River bei Lower Sabie Camp, Ost, Transvaal

specimen
SMF_12191M

Ufertümpel des Sabie River bei Lower Sabie Camp, Ost, Transvaal

specimen
SMF_12188

Altwasser des Olifants River, bei Pont zwischen Satara und Letaba, Ost., Transvaal

specimen
SMF_12195

Tumpel Trockenbell des Mawobje Creeks, Zufluss des Gr. Letaba Rivers bei Letaba Camp, Ost, Transvaal

specimen
MCZ_108642

Kruger National Park, Transvaal

specimen
MCZ_110739

Aaipes River, near Pretoria, Transvaal

specimen
SMF_12196B

Tumpel des Gundzana Baches, Sabie Gebiel, bei Mabonis George’s Kraal, 2o km n.v. Satara Ost Transvaal

specimen
MRAC_59105

E. Transvaal: Kruger-Park, Mawbji Creek, Camp Letaba

specimen
MRAC_59106

E. Transvaal: Kruger-Park, Mawbji Creek, Camp Letaba

specimen
MRAC_59107

E. Transvaal: Kruger-Park, Mawbji Creek, Camp Letaba

specimen
MRAC_59108

E. Transvaal: Kruger-Park, Mawbji Creek, Camp Letaba

specimen
MRAC_59109

E. Transvaal: Kruger-Park, Mawbji Creek, Camp Letaba

specimen
MRAC_59110

Tümpel des Gudzana-Bacjes bei Satara-Camp, Krüger-Park, O. Transvaal

specimen
MRAC_59112

Tümpel des Gudzana-Bacjes bei Satara-Camp, Krüger-Park, O. Transvaal

specimen
MRAC_59113

Tümpel des Gudzana-Bacjes bei Satara-Camp, Krüger-Park, O. Transvaal

specimen
MRAC_59114

Tümpel des Gudzana-Bacjes bei Satara-Camp, Krüger-Park, O. Transvaal

specimen
MRAC_59115

Tümpel des Gudzana-Bacjes bei Satara-Camp, Krüger-Park, O. Transvaal

specimen
MRAC_59134

E. Tranvaal, Kruger-Park... riv. Sabie, Lower Sabie Camp

specimen
MRAC_59135

E. Tranvaal, Kruger-Park... riv. Sabie, Lower Sabie Camp

specimen
MRAC_59136

E. Tranvaal, Kruger-Park... riv. Sabie, Lower Sabie Camp

specimen
MRAC_59137

E. Tranvaal, Kruger-Park... riv. Sabie, Lower Sabie Camp

specimen
MRAC_59138

E. Tranvaal, Kruger-Park... riv. Sabie, Lower Sabie Camp

specimen
MRAC_59139

E. Tranvaal, Kruger-Park... riv. Sabie, Lower Sabie Camp

specimen
MRAC_59140

E. Tranvaal, Kruger-Park... riv. Sabie, Lower Sabie Camp

specimen
MRAC_59141

E. Tranvaal, Kruger-Park... riv. Sabie, Lower Sabie Camp

specimen
MRAC_59150_01

E. Tranvaal, Kruger-Park... riv. Sabie, Lower Sabie Camp

specimen
MRAC_59211

E. Tranvaal, Kruger-Park... riv. Sabie, Lower Sabie Camp

specimen
MCZ_99738

Letaba River, near camp, Kruger National Park, Transvaal

specimen
MCZ_99739

near Punda Maria, Kruger National Park, Transvaal

specimen
MCZ_99740

Mapulin, 4 mi S Letaba Camp, Kruger National Park, Transvaal

specimen
MCZ_MP.225

South Africa

specimen
ANSP_41812

Natal, So. Africa

specimen
ANSP_125491

Zulu Country, South Africa

specimen
UMMZ_111935

Pretoria [Transvaal, South Africa]

specimen
UMMZ_111931

Premier Mine Dam, junction of Wilge and Elands Rivers, Pretoria District, Transvaal

specimen
UMMZ_111933

Natal, South Africa

specimen
UMMZ_111934

near Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa

specimen
FMNH_21466

Apies River, near Pretoria, South Africa

specimen
IRSNB_MP_0520

Zoulouland

specimen
IRSNB_MP_0521

Transvaal

specimen
IRSNB_MP_0522

Transvaal

specimen
AMNH_30852

Natal

specimen
MNHN_MP_0943

Affluent du Limpopo, Zululand

specimen
MNHN_MP_0957

Zululand

specimen
MRAC_57635

Natal

specimen
USNM_86778

Umpingave River, Port Natal, Af.

specimen
INHS_79028

Sabie River, Kruger National Park

specimen
BMNH_MP_244

South Africa

specimen
BMNH_MP_245

Transvaal, Kalk Bank

specimen
USNM_894285

Kwa-Zulu Natal, Mzuki Nature Reserve, South Africa

specimen
BMNH_63-3-25-5

South Africa

specimen
BMNH_1948-11-13-1

Zululand, Mruzi Reserve

specimen
IRSNB_MP_0659

Napier River, Transvaal

specimen
IRSNB_MP_0667

Pretoria

specimen
IRSNB_MP_0671

Pretoria

specimen
BMNH_61-7-3-20

Port Natal

specimen
BMNH_MP_251

Port Natal

specimen
USNM_86778A

Umpingave River, Port Natal, Africa

specimen
USNM_18805

Port Natal, Africa

specimen
UMMZ_40768

near Johannesburg, Transvaal

specimen
AMS_127030

Transvaal, South Africa

   

Sudan

specimen
ZMB_77701

Kosti, Blac Nil, Ost Afrika

specimen
ZMB_20556

Rohl Fluss, Sudan

specimen
ZMB_4860

Sennar, Sudan

specimen
ZMB_MP_0027

Cartum

specimen
BMNH_MP_398

White Nile

specimen
SMF_978

Bahr el Ghazal

specimen
SMF_982

Bahr el Ghazal

specimen
SMF_319218

N Sudan Wadi Howar

specimen
UMMZ_111936

Mogran, nr Khartum [Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Africa]

specimen
MCZ_289030

White Nile, Dinder [lat. 13° long 33°], Sudan

specimen
MCZ_289031

White Nile, Gedaref, Sudan

specimen
UMMZ_248917

Swampy bank of White Nile N of Kosti, Sudan & across from Aba Is.

specimen
MNHN_MP_0918

Nil Blanc

specimen
MNHN_MP_0927

Nil Blanc

specimen
BMNH_1923-6-8-1148

Abba Island opposite Fachi Shoya, S. Sudan

specimen
USNM_215176

Assua R., on the Nimule Gondokoro trail, Uganda

specimen
USNM_215181

Bahr el Ghazal, Sudan

specimen
MRAC_97724

Soudan: Bahr el Abiad


Tanzania

specimen
ZMB_MP_0012

Rukwa See, Tansania

specimen
BMNH_MP_396

Lake Rukwa, Tanganyika Territory

specimen
BMNH_MP_403

Kiniagai Lake, near Mpwapwa, Tanganyika Territory

specimen
ZMB_43377

Bay of Njanguira a Mtiwe

specimen
ZMB_MP_0036

Nyemirembe 2° 33’ S

specimen
ZMB_39421

Kisungu am Pangani

specimen
ZMB_43380

Ihindi, Ugogo

specimen
ZMB_43376

Mjassa (Ugogo)

specimen
USNM_128576

Usagara

specimen
BMNH_65-1-3-28

E Africa from the Kingami River and ?, 6° S lat

specimen
MCZ_53207

Mkata Plains, Tanganyika Territory

specimen
MCZ_260520

Ruvu River, Dar-es-Salaam, 5 mi WNW Mlandizi, Tanganyika

specimen
ZMB_52871

Rikwa See

specimen
MCZ_288395

Sibiti River, Lake Eyasi, SW end near Kimali, Tanganyika Territory

specimen
MCZ_288400

Kiruruno, Tanganyika Territory; 34°20’ E, 50°50’ S

specimen
IRSNB_MP_0502

Usagara

specimen
CM_61.7246

Mkata River (trib. to Wami River), near Mrogoro, German East Africa

specimen
CM_61.7247

Ngerengere River (Trib. to Kingani or Riwu River), Mrogoro, German East Africa

specimen
BMNH_MP_246

Sagayo, Tanganyika Territory

specimen
BMNH_MP_247

Mkata Plains, Tanganyika Territory

specimen
BMNH_84-2-19-74-76

Mgunda Mkali, Urambo Country

specimen
BMNH_MP_239

Yaida Plain, Mbulu Dist., Northern Province of Tanganyika

specimen
BMNH_65-1-3-31

Kingami River, Tanganyika Territory, East Africa, on plateau 6° S Lat.

specimen
IRSNB_MP_0661

Usagara, Transvaal

specimen
BMNH_63-9-16-1

Uzaramo and Central Africa in the Ugogo District, between 6° and 7° S lat. and 34° and 35° E long. Tanganyika Territory

specimen
BMNH_90-4-16-3-5

Ugogo, Niargivira [?]

specimen
BMNH_84-2-19-77-78

Mganda Mkali, Urambo Country, Tanganyika Territory


Togo

specimen
MNHN_MP_0932

Togo, Duetch Oet Afrika

   

Uganda

specimen
MCZ_171543

Lake Victoria, Uganda

   

Zambia

specimen
ANSP_413309

Msandila River, confluence with Luangwa River, Zambia

specimen
ANSP_416309

Lutemwe River, Lutemwe Bridge on the Chipata-Mfuwe road, Zambia

specimen
ANSP_413305

Zambezi River, near Livingstone, c. 2 km above Mosi-au-Tunya, Zambia

specimen
ANSP_416288

fisheries pond, Chilanga, Fisheries Department fish ponds, Zambia

specimen
ANSP_416287

fisheries pond, Chilanga, Fisheries Department fish ponds, Zambia

specimen
ANSP_416310

Lutemwe River, Lutemwe Bridge on the Chipata-Mfuwe road, Zambia

specimen
ANSP_419403

fisheries pond, Chilanga, Fisheries Department fish ponds, Zambia

specimen
ANSP_419404

Siamombo River, on the Sinazongwe-Mamba Rd., Zambia

specimen
UMMZ_248918

River Zambesi, near Livingstone, S Rhodesia

specimen
USNM_341223

Kafue, Rhodesia

specimen
MRAC_795305

Zambia: Great Rusha River near Makuka

specimen
INHS_30874

Lutemwe River, Lutemwe Bridge on the Chipata-Mfuwe road, Zambia

specimen
INHS_30873

Msandila River (Luangwa River- Zambezi River- Indian Ocean Dr.) road from Mfuwe to Nsefu, Eastern, Zambia, Africa, -13.1146°, 31.8636°

specimen
INHS_30876

Lutemwe River, Lutemwe Bridge on the Chipata-Mfuwe road, Zambia

specimen
BMNH_1947-8-18-32-34

Kafue River, Rhodesia

specimen
BMNH_MP_255

Magoye River, near Mazabuka, Northern Rhodesia

   

INHS_30871 Msandila River, confluence with Luangwa River, Zambia

INHS_30868 Zambezi River, near Livingstone, c. 2 km above Mosi-au-Tunya, Zambia


Zimbabwe

specimen
BMNH_MP_388

Zambesi River, near Deka

specimen
SMF_12190

Hunyani River, Zambesi Zufluss, 20 km sv Salisbury, S. Rhodesien

 

unknown

specimen
BMNH_MP_392

Zambesi River, at Mutitsu Con [unknown locality]

specimen
ZMB_MP_0029

unbek. Fundort

specimen
ZMB_MP_0030

Afrika

specimen
ZMB_MP_0060

[no locality available - Africa]

specimen
SMF_12210

Angeblich Victoria Nyanza

specimen
ZMB_52872

......10-20......

specimen
ANSP_125490

[no locality available - Africa]

specimen
BMNH_84-2-9-7

Zambesi River

specimen
UMMZ_111997

Lake Victoria Nyanza, Ukérévé, East Africa

specimen
UMMZ_111943

East Africa

specimen
MNHN_MP_0220

Afrique Orientale

specimen
IRSNB_MP_0503

[no locality available - Africa]

specimen
BMNH_90-7-16-6

Victoria Nyanza, Njanagodjn [?]

specimen
USNM_706967

East Africa

specimen
USNM_70076

[no locality available - Africa]

specimen
MRAC_97406

Victoria Nyanza

specimen
AMS_127036

Central Africa

 

ANSP_40768

Genbank Vouchers

Zambia

ANSP_419403 (COI, 16S, 28S) fisheries pond, Chilanga, Fisheries Department fish ponds, Zambia

 

BivAToL-405 (COI, 16S, 28S, 18S, H3)

FMNH_343928 (COI, 16S, 28S)

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