MolluscaBase - Cyrena africana var. albida Krauss, 1848

MolluscaBase name details

Cyrena africana var. albida Krauss, 1848

AphiaID

1289175 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1289175)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (synonym)

Accepted name

Corbicula africana (Krauss, 1848)

Rank

Variety

Parent

Cyrena africana Krauss, 1848 accepted as Corbicula africana (Krauss, 1848)

Original name

Cyrena africana var. albida Krauss, 1848

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 9 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cyrena africana var. albida Krauss, 1848. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1289175 on 2025-09-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2018-08-08 08:17:22Z

created

Herbert, David

2019-07-13 00:23:16Z

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Rosenberg, Gary

2019-08-27 10:09:17Z

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Herbert, David

2021-04-01 16:25:48Z

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Herbert, David

2022-08-24 10:11:55Z

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Herbert, David

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Sources (3)

original description Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 9 [details]

additional source Daget J. (1998). <i>Catalogue raisonné des mollusques bivalves d'eau douce africains</i>. 329 pp. Leiden: Backhuys / Paris: Editions de l'ORSTOM. , available online at http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers14-12/010016420.pdf
page(s): 168. [details]

status source Graf, D.; Cummings, K. (2019). Musselp database: The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves). , available online at http://mussel-project.uwsp.edu/ [details]