Coelatura rothschildi (Neuville & Anthony, 1906)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonyms: Unio rothschildi Neuville & Anthony, 1906; Caelatura rothschildi (Neuville & Anthony, 1906) [orth. error]

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

Conservation Status

Missing (Van Damme, 2016; Cowie et al., 2017) or Extinct (Graf & Cummings, 2021, 2025)

Last record: subfossil (Graf & Cummings, 2025); 1980's (Van Damme, 2016)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

Distribution & Habitat

Lake Turkana, northern Kenya

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Neuville, H. and Anthony, R. (1906). Liste préliminaire de Mollusques des lacs Rodolphe, Stéphanie et Marguerite (Collection Maurice de Rothshild). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 12: 407-410.

Other references:

Bacci, G. (1951). Elementi per una malacofauna dell’Abissinia y della Somalia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genova 60: 1-144.

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.

Fischer-Piette, E. and Métivier, B. (1974). Sur divers Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de Somalie et d’Abyssinie. Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle 133: 9-52.

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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-011-0810-5

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 26 June 2025.

Haas, F. (1936). Binnen-Mollusken aus Inner-Afrika, hauptsächlich gesammelt von Dr. F. Haas während der Schomburgk-Expedition in der Jahren 1931/32. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 431: 1-156, 8 pls.

Haas, F. (1969). Superfamilia Unionacea. Das Tierreich 88: x, 1-663. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin.

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

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Coelatura rothschildi (H. Neuville & R. Anthony, 1906). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1304265 on 2025-06-28

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, 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. (2016). Coelatura rothschildi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T98179041A98179088. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T98179041A98179088.en. Downloaded on 03 March 2018.

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