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Aspatharia divaricata (von Martens, 1897:250)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Spatha divaricata E. von Martens, 1897

 

See Graf & Cummings (2025) for a more complete taxonomic history.

 

Conservation Status

Missing (Cowie et al., 2017; Lange et al., 2017)

Last record: 1898 (Lange et al., 2017)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

 

Distribution & Habitat

Lake Victoria

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Martens, E. von. (1897). Beschalte Weichthiere Deutsch-Ost-Afrikas. In: Möbius, K.: Deutsch-Ostafrika. 4: i-v + 1-308. Berlin [Dietrich Reimer].

 

Other references:

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.

Daget J. (1998). Catalogue raisonné des mollusques bivalves d'eau douce africains. Leiden: Backhuys / Paris: Editions de l'ORSTOM. 329 pp.

Franc, A. (1949). Unionidae d’Afrique occidentale Française recueilles par Th. Monod. Journal de Conchyliologie 9: 157-187.

Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2007a). Review of the systematics and global diversity of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionoida). Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(4): 291-314. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eym029

Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2007b). Preliminary review of the freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) of northern Africa, with an emphasis on the Nile. Journal of the Egyptian German Society of Zoology 53D: 89-119.

Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2011). Freshwater mussel (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) richness and endemism in the ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar based on comprehensive museum sampling. Hydrobiologia 678: 17-36 + supplemental material.

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.).

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 23 June 2025.

Haas, F. (1969). Superfamilia Unionacea. Das Tierreich 88: 1-663.

Kobelt, W. (1910). Verzeichnis der aus Afrika bekannten Binnenconchylien. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 32: 53-97.

Lange, C., Seddon, M. B. and Van Damme, D. (2017). Aspatharia divaricata (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T44265A118384201. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T44265A118384201.en. Downloaded on 02 May 2018.

Mandahl-Barth, G. (1954). The freshwater mollusks of Uganda and adjacent territories. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge 8° Zoologie. 32: 1-206.

Mandahl-Barth, G. (1988). Studies on African Freshwater Bivalves. Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory, Charlottenlund, Denmark.  161 pp.

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Aspatharia divaricata (E. von Martens, 1897). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1353379 on 2025-06-22

Pilsbry, H. A. and Bequaert, J. (1927). The aquatic mollusks of the Belgian Congo, with a geographical and ecological account of Congo malacology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 53: 69-602. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/975

Simpson, C. T. (1900). Synopsis of the naiades, or pearly fresh-water mussels. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 22: 501-1044.

Simpson, Charles Torrey. (1914). A descriptive catalogue of the naiades, or pearly fresh-water mussels. Parts I-III. Detroit, Michigan: Bryant Walker. 1540 pp.

Van Damme, D. and Van Bocxlaer, B. (2009). Freshwater molluscs of the Nile Basin, past and present. [in] Dumont, The Nile: Origin, Environments, Limnology and Human Use: 585-629.

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