Germainaia geayi Germain, 1911

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Unio geayi Germain, 1911 (original combination); Nodularia geayi Germain, 1911; Caelatura geayi Germain, 1911 (comb. nov., Haas, 1969

Transferred to a newly erected genus Germainaia by (Graf & Cummings, 2009).

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: before 1911

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

Distribution

"Madagascar"

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Lectotype: MNHN 1704

Media

For a photograph of the shell see: http://mussel-project.ua.edu/db/db.php?p=div&l=spp&n=1751

References

Original scientific description:

Germain, L. (1911). Les Unionidae de Madagascar. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 17: 136-140.

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.

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.

Van Damme, D. (2016). Germainaia geayi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T173096A91286832. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T173096A91286832.en. Downloaded on 03 March 2018.

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. (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.

Haas, F. (1969). Superfamilia Unionacea. Das Tierreich, Lief. 88. Walter de Gruyter and Co., Berlin, 663 pp.

Máiz-Tomé, L., Sayer, C. and Darwall, W. (eds.). (2018). The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean islands hotspot. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. viii + 128 pp.

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