Nodularia cariei (Germain, 1919)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonyms: Unio cariei Germain, 1919; Coelatura cariei (Germain, 1919); Nodularia (Caelatura) cariei (Germain, 1919)

Now considered a synonym of Coelatura aegyptiaca (Graf & Cummings, 2009).

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym of Coelatura aegyptiaca) (Graf & Cummings, 2009)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

Was considered Missing (Bouchet & von Cosel, 1996; Régnier et al., 2009).

Distribution & Habitat

"Réunion, Mascarene Islands"

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Germain, L. (1919). Contributions à la faune malacologique de Madagascar. VII. Un pélécypode nouveau des rivières de l'Île de La Réunion. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 25: 121-122.

Other references:

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Bouchet, P. & von Cosel, R. (1996). Unio cariei. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T22740A9384352. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T22740A9384352.en. Downloaded on 03 March 2018.

Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.

Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2009). Actual and alleged freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) from Madagascar and the Mascarenes, with description of a new genus, Germainaia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 158(1): 221-238.

Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2021). A ‘big data’ approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species. Journal of Molluscan Studies 87(1): eyaa034 (36 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyaa034

Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2025). The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves). MUSSEL Project Web Site, https://www.mussel-project.net/. Accessed 5 July 2025.

Griffiths, O. L. and Florens, V. F. B. (2006). A field guide to the non-marine molluscs of the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Rodrigues and Réunion) and the northern dependencies of Mauritius. Bioculture Press: Mauritius. Pp. i-xv, 1-185, pls 1-32.

Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01245.x  [Appendix S1-S2]

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