Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807
Lamarck, 1807, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 401, pls. 29; pl. 31, fig. 1.
Lamarck, 1819, Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 99, sp. 1.
(renamed Etheria lamarckii Férussac, 1824)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_21209, Habite..... la mer des grandes Indes?

Etheria elliptica — Lamarck (1807), Lamarck (1819), Blainville (1825), Deshayes (1830), ..., Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Wu et al. (2021), Graf & Cummings (2021), Smith (2021)
Ætheria lamarckii — Sowerby (1825)
Aetheria elliptica — Wood (1828), Adams & Adams (1857), Sturany (1894), Pallary (1909), Kobelt (1910), Thiele (1934), Dartevelle & Schwetz (1937), Dartevelle (1939), Franc (1949)
Etheria lamarckii — Hanley (1843)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) elliptica — Bourguignat (1880)
Ætheria elliptica — E.A. Smith (1880), E.A. Smith (1904), E.A. Smith (1906), Germain (1907), Germain (1918)
Aetheria elliptica s.s. — Martens (1897)

Aetheria cailliaudi Férussac, 1824
Férussac, 1824, Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. 1: 359.
Ferussac in Sowerby, 1825, Zool. Jour. 1: 522.
Type(s): UNKNOWN MCZ_72888, Blue Nile, Egypt.

Aetheria cailliaudi — Férussac (1824), Adams & Adams (1857), Martens (1866), Pallary (1903), Kobelt (1904)
Ætheria cailliaudi — Sowerby (1825)
Etheria cailliaudi — Deshayes (1830), Jay (1835), Sowerby (1872), Jousseaume (1886)
Etheria caillaudi — Hanley (1843)
Aetheria caillaudi — Jickeli (1874), Westerlund (1890)
Ætheria (Caillaudiana) caillaudi — Bourguignat (1880)
Ætheria caillaudi — Servain (1890)
Aetheria elliptica var. cailliaudi — Martens (1897), Pallary (1909)
Aetheria elliptica — Germain (1907)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), IUCN (2011), Elderkin et al. (2016)
Etheria elliptica var. cailliaudi — Yonge (1962), Yonge (1978)

Aetheria tubifera Sowerby, 1825
Sowerby, 1825, Zool. Jour. 1: 523, pl. 19.

Aetheria tubifera — Sowerby (1825), Westerlund (1890)
Etheria caillaudi — Hanley (1843)
Aetheria cailliaudi — Martens (1866), Pallary (1903)
Aetheria caillaudi — Jickeli (1874)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) tubifera — Bourguignat (1880)
Etheria cailliaudi — Jousseaume (1886)
Ætheria tubifera — Servain (1890)
Aetheria elliptica var. tubifera — Martens (1897), Pallary (1909)
Aetheria elliptica — Germain (1907)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Mandahl-Barth (1968), Haas (1969), Van Damme (1984), Daget (1998), IUCN (2011), Elderkin et al. (2016)
Etheria elliptica var. tubifera — Yonge (1962), Yonge (1978)

Aetheria elliptica var. typica R. Anthony, 1907
‘Germain’ R. Anthony, 1907, Ann. Soc. Roy. Zool. Malac. Belgique 41: 372.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807)

Aetheria elliptica var. typica — R. Anthony (1907), Pallary (1909)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Daget (1998)
Etheria elliptica var. typica — Yonge (1978)

Etheria semilunata Lamarck, 1807
Lamarck, 1807, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 404, pl. 32, figs. 1-2 [as ‘semi-lunata’].
Lamarck, 1819, Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 100, sp. 3.
(renamed Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MHNG_XXX, Madagascar.

Etheria semilunata — Lamarck (1807), Lamarck (1819), Children (1823), Blainville (1825), Sowerby (1839)
Etheria semi-lunata — Lamarck (1807), Deshayes (1830)
Ætheria plumbea — Sowerby (1825)
Etheria plumbea — Hanley (1843)
Aetheria semilunata — Adams & Adams (1857), Fischer (1887), Ancey (1888)
Ætheria semilunata — Woodward (1871)
Etheria elliptica — Sowerby (1872), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), ..., Graf & Cummings (2007), Graf & Cummings (2009), IUCN (2011), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) semilunata — Bourguignat (1880)
Etheria plombea — Jousseaume (1886)
Aetheria elliptica s.s. — Martens (1897)
Aetheria elliptica — Germain (1907), Germain (1925)

Etheria transversa Lamarck, 1807
Lamarck, 1807, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 406, pl. 32, figs. 3-4.
Lamarck, 1819, Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 100, sp. 4.
(renamed Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHG_XXXX, Madagascar.

Etheria transversa — Lamarck (1807), Lamarck (1819), Deshayes (1830)
Ætheria plumbea — Sowerby (1825)
Etheria plumbea — Hanley (1843)
Etheria elliptica — Sowerby (1872), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2006), Graf & Cummings (2009), IUCN (2011)
Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) transversa — Bourguignat (1880)
Aetheria elliptica s.s. — Martens (1897)
Aetheria elliptica — Germain (1907), Germain (1925)

Etheria trigonula Lamarck, 1807
Lamarck, 1807, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 403, pl. 30; pl. 31, fig. 2.
Lamarck, 1819, Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 99, sp. 2.
(renamed Etheria lamarckii Férussac, 1824)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHN_21210, [no locality available - Africa].

Etheria trigonula — Lamarck (1807), Lamarck (1819), Deshayes (1830)
Ætheria lamarckii — Sowerby (1825)
Etheria lamarckii — Hanley (1843)
Etheria elliptica — Sowerby (1872), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2009), IUCN (2011)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) elliptica — Bourguignat (1880)
Aetheria elliptica s.s. — Martens (1897)
Aetheria elliptica — Germain (1907), Germain (1925)

Etheria caillaudi Cuvier, 1817
‘Ferussac’ of Authors.
Cuvier, 1817, Règne Animal 2: 130.
Hanley, 1843, Illustr. Descr. Cat. Rec. Bivalve Shells: 230.
Jickeli, 1874, Nova Acta Dtsch. Akad. Naturf. 37(1): 281.
Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 64.
Westerlund, 1890, Fauna Paläarct. Binnenconch. 2(7): 316.
Servain, 1890, Bull. Soc. Malac. France 7: 320.
(error for Aetheria cailliaudi Férussac, 1824)

Etheria caillaudi — Cuvier (1817)
Etheria elliptica — Fischer-Piette & Métivier (1974), Daget (1998)

Etheria semilunata Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821
Sowerby & Sowerby, 1821, Genera of Shells 2: 1, pl. 94.
(reference to Etheria semilunata Lamarck, 1807)

Etheria semilunata — Sowerby & Sowerby (1821)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) elliptica — Bourguignat (1880)

Etheria lamarckii Férussac, 1824
Férussac, 1824, Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. 1: 359.
Ferussac in Sowerby, 1825, Zool. Jour. 1: 522 [as ‘Ætheria’].
(new name for Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807; new name for Etheria trigonula Lamarck, 1807)

Etheria lamarckii — Férussac (1824), Hanley (1843)
Ætheria lamarckii — Sowerby (1825)
Etheria elliptica — Sowerby (1872), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), IUCN (2011)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) elliptica — Bourguignat (1880)
Aetheria elliptica s.s. — Martens (1897)
Aetheria elliptica — Germain (1907)

Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824
Férussac, 1824, Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. 1: 359.
Ferussac in Sowerby, 1825, Zool. Jour. 1: 522 [as ‘Ætheria’].
(new name for Etheria semilunata Lamarck, 1807; new name for Etheria transversa Lamarck, 1807)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE MNHG_XXXX, Madagascar.

Etheria plumbea — Férussac (1824), Jay (1835), Hanley (1843)
Ætheria plumbea — Sowerby (1825)
Etheria elliptica — Sowerby (1872), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Fischer-Piette & Métivier (1974), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2006), IUCN (2011)
Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) semilunata — Bourguignat (1880)
Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) transversa — Bourguignat (1880)
Etheria plombea — Jousseaume (1886)
Aetheria semilunata — Ancey (1888)
Aetheria elliptica s.s. — Martens (1897)
Aetheria elliptica — Germain (1907), Germain (1925)

Aetheria denhami Koenig, 1826
Koenig, 1826, [in] Denham & Clapperton, Narr. Travels Africa, Appendix: 254.

Aetheria denhami — Koenig (1826)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998)

Etheria carteroni Michelin, 1830
Michelin, 1830, unknown publication: 1.
Michelin, 1831, Mag. Zool. 1: 1, pl. 1, fig. 1.
Type(s): UNKNOWN MNHN_MP_1541, ... Faleme, Senegambia.

Etheria carteroni — Michelin (1830)
Etheria plumbea — Hanley (1843)
Etheria elliptica — Sowerby (1872), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998)
Aetheria caillaudi — Jickeli (1874)
Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) carteroni — Bourguignat (1880)
Aetheria elliptica var. tubifera — Martens (1897)
Aetheria elliptica — Germain (1907)

Etheria cailliaudi Sowerby, 1872
Sowerby, 1872, Conch. Icon. 18: pl. 2. sp. 2, fig. 2a. [in part]
(reference to Aetheria cailliaudi Férussac, 1824)

Etheria cailliaudi — Sowerby (1872)
Aetheria elliptica var. tubifera — Martens (1897)

Etheria semilunaris Sowerby, 1872
‘Lamarck’ Sowerby, 1872, Conch. Icon. 18: pl. 1, sp. 1.
(error for Etheria semilunata Lamarck, 1807)

Etheria semilunaris — Sowerby (1872)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Daget (1998)

Aetheria chambardi Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 56, 69.

Aetheria chambardi — Bourguignat (1880)
Ætheria (Chambardiana) chambardi — Bourguignat (1880)
Ætheria chambardi — Servain (1890)
Aetheria elliptica — Germain (1907)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998)

Aetheria elliptica E.A. Smith, 1880
‘Lamarck’ E.A. Smith, 1880, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1880: 352.
(reference to Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807)

Aetheria elliptica — E.A. Smith (1880)
Aetheria tanganikana — Bourguignat (1889)

Aetheria letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 55, 70.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0193, Le Nil, dans les conaux du Fayoum, Egypt.

Aetheria letourneuxi — Bourguignat (1880), Westerlund (1890)
Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) letourneuxi — Bourguignat (1880)
Ætheria letourneuxi — Servain (1890)
Aetheria cailliaudi — Pallary (1903)
Aetheria elliptica — Germain (1907)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2011)

Aetheria nilotica Bourguignat, 1880
‘Letourneux, mss.’ Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 58.

Aetheria nilotica — Bourguignat (1880), Westerlund (1890)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) nilotica — Bourguignat (1880)
Ætheria nilotica — Servain (1890)
Aetheria elliptica s.s. — Martens (1897)
Aetheria cailliaudi — Pallary (1903)
Aetheria elliptica — Germain (1907)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998)

Aetheria petrettinii Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 53, 70.
Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_MP_0264, dans le Ramlé à Hagueret de fente de Ramali, canal Mahmoudieh.

Aetheria petrettinii — Bourguignat (1880), Westerlund (1890)
Ætheria (Letourneuxiana) petrettinii — Bourguignat (1880)
Ætheria petrettinii — Servain (1890)
Aetheria cailliaudi — Pallary (1903)
Aetheria elliptica — Germain (1907)
Aetheria elliptica var. petrettinii — Pallary (1909)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), IUCN (2011), Graf & Cummings (2011)

Aetheria senegalica Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 68.

Aetheria senegalica — Bourguignat (1880)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) senegalica — Bourguignat (1880)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998)

Aetheria caillaudi [sic] var. elongata Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 66.
(intro'd as syn of Aetheria nilotica Bourguignat, 1880)

Aetheria caillaudi var. elongata — Bourguignat (1880)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) nilotica — Bourguignat (1880)

Aetheria caillaudi [sic] var. rotundata Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880, Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 66.
(intro'd as syn of Aetheria tubifera Sowerby, 1825)

Aetheria caillaudi var. rotundata — Bourguignat (1880)
Ætheria (Niloticiana) tubifera — Bourguignat (1880)

Aetheria bourguignati Rochebrune, 1886
Rochebrune, 1886, Bull. Soc. Malac. France 3: 14.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_0171, Gancini (Congo).

Aetheria bourguignati — Rochebrune (1886)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2011)

Etheria plombea Jousseaume, 1886
‘Férussac’ Jousseaume, 1886, Bull. Soc. Zool. France 11: 501.
(error for Etheria plumbea Férussac, 1824)

Etheria plombea — Jousseaume (1886)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Daget (1998)

Aetheria tanganikana Bourguignat, 1889
‘Lamarck’ E.A. Smith, 1880, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1880: 352 [as ‘Aetheria elliptica’].
Bourguignat, 1889, Bull. Soc. Malac. France 6: 65.

Aetheria tanganikana — Bourguignat (1889)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Leloup (1950), Daget (1998)

Aetheria africana Paetel, 1890
‘Caill.’ Paetel, 1890, Cat. Conch.-Samml. 3: 190. [nomen nudum]

Aetheria africana — Paetel (1890)
Etheria elliptica — Daget (1998)

Aetheria electrina Paetel, 1890
Paetel, 1890, Cat. Conch.-Samml. 3: 164. [nomen nudum]

Aetheria electrina — Paetel (1890)
Etheria elliptica — Daget (1998)

Aetheria nidus hirundinis Simroth, 1890
Simroth, 1890, Zool. Anz. Leipzig. 13: 662. [non-binomial]
Simroth, 1894, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 18: 288, pl. 1, figs. 8-10.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE SMF_5687, Kongo Falle.

Aetheria nidus hirundinis — Simroth (1890)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Daget (1998)

Aetheria heteromorpha Simroth, 1894
Simroth, 1894, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 18: 287.
Type(s): TYPE SMF_5685, Kongo Falle.

Aetheria heteromorpha — Simroth (1894)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Daget (1998)

Aetheria tubulosa Simroth, 1894
‘Bk.’ Simroth, 1894, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 18: 277.
(error for Aetheria tubifera Sowerby, 1825)

Aetheria tubulosa — Simroth (1894)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Daget (1998)

Aetheria hetermorpha mutatio tubulifera Simroth, 1894
Simroth, 1894, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 18: 288, pl. 1, figs. 1-7. [infra-subsp.]
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Aetheria heteromorpha Simroth, 1894)

Aetheria hetermorpha mutatio tubulifera — Simroth (1894)
Etheria elliptica — Daget (1998)

Aetheria elliptica Form-Varietät globosa Martens, 1897
Martens, 1897, Besch. Weich. Deutsch Ost Afr. 4: 218. [infra-subsp.]
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807)

Aetheria elliptica Form-Varietät globosa — Martens (1897)
Aetheria elliptica s.s. — Martens (1897)
Etheria elliptica — Daget (1998)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Aetheria cailliaudi — Pallary (1903), Kobelt (1904)
Ætheria elliptica — E.A. Smith (1904), E.A. Smith (1906), Germain (1907), Germain (1918)
Aetheria elliptica — Germain (1907), Pallary (1909), Kobelt (1910), Germain (1925), Thiele (1934), Dartevelle & Schwetz (1937), Dartevelle (1939), Franc (1949)
Aetheria elliptica var. typica — R. Anthony (1907), Pallary (1909)
Aetheria elliptica var. cailliaudi — Pallary (1909)
Aetheria elliptica var. tubifera — Pallary (1909)
Aetheria elliptica var. petrettinii — Pallary (1909)
Etheria elliptica — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1936), Modell (1942), Leloup (1950), ..., Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Wu et al. (2021), Graf & Cummings (2021), Smith (2021)
Etheria elliptica var. cailliaudi — Yonge (1962), Yonge (1978)
Etheria elliptica var. tubifera — Yonge (1962), Yonge (1978)
Etheria elliptica var. typica — Yonge (1978)