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Chambardia wahlbergi

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Botswana National Museum, 331 Independence Avenue, Gaborone, Botswana School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA, Australia

Description

7. Chambardia wahlbergi (Krauss, 1848)

Distribution and year: Thamalakane River, Maun [ANSP185374] N/A (Graf & Cummings 2023); Nata River, between Maitengwe and Nata police station [TMSA12237] N/A (Appleton 1979; Graf & Cummings 2006); Maitengwe River N/A (Graf & Cummings 2006); Lotsane River, Palapye N/A (Connolly 1939).

Geographic range: Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Notes: This is the largest freshwater bivalve species in Africa, comprising six subspecies (Appleton & Curtis 2007). The molluscs are capable of aestivating for up to two and a half years. Large specimens are used by fishermen as bait (Seddon & Van Damme 2018). There are speculations that this species has never been collected from the Okavango Delta (Appleton & Curtis 2007), but a voucher specimen record from Thamalakane River [ANSP185374] exists in the Mussel Online Project Database (Graf & Cummings 2023).

Type locality: Affen River, a tributary of the Limpopo River, South Africa (Krauss 1848).

Sources: Connolly (1939: 617); van Bruggen (1966 a: 110, as Aspatharia (Spathopsisi) wahlbergi); Brown (1967: 487, as Aspatharia wahlbergi); Appleton (1979: 166, as A. (S.) wahlbergi); Mandahl-Barth (1988: 68); Graf & Cummings (2006: 180; 2023); Appleton & Curtis (2007: 51).

Conservation status: Least Concern.

Notes

Published as part of Rapalai, Boikhutso Lerato, 2024, An annotated checklist of molluscs recorded from Botswana, pp. 15-44 in Indago 41 on pages 19-20, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13132605

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URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F0DD67D30EFFB4FCB0053AFDBCFD24

Cites
Publication: https://www.iucnredlist.org/fr/species/98324221/120110242 (URL)
Publication: 10520/AJA00411752_297 (Handle)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.13132605 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC9A51FD30AFFB1FF80032CFF83FFD4 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/716CBDAD-9ACA-4820-A6C4-93158C907654 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03F0DD67D30EFFB4FCB0053AFDBCFD24 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/263454426 (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Krauss
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Unionida
Family
Iridinidae
Genus
Chambardia
Species
wahlbergi
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Chambardia wahlbergi (Krauss, 1848) sec. Rapalai, 2024

References

  • KRAUSS, F. 1848. Die sudafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur geographischen Verbreitung derselben, mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Stuttgart: Ebner & Seubert. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
  • GRAF, D. L. & CUMMINGS, K. S. 2023. The freshwater mussels (Unionoida) of the world (and other less consequential bivalves). MUSSEL Project.
  • APPLETON, C. C. 1979. The Unionacea (Mollusca, Lamellibranchiata) of south-central Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 77: 151-174. https://biostor.org/reference/116855
  • GRAF, D. L. & CUMMINGS, K. S. 2006. Freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) of Angola, with description of a new species, Mutela wistarmorrisi. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 155 (1): 163-194. https://doi.org/10.1635/i0097-3157-155-1-163.1
  • CONNOLLY, M. W. K. 1939. A monographic survey of South African non-marine Mollusca. Annals of the South African Museum 33: 1-660.
  • APPLETON, C. C. & CURTIS, B. A. 2007. An annotated checklist of the freshwater bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Botswana and Namibia. Annals of the Eastern Cape Museum 6: 45-71. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/212554#page/47
  • SEDDON, M. B. & VAN DAMME, D. 2018. Chambardia wahlbergi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T98324221A120110242. https://www.iucnredlist.org/fr/species/98324221/120110242
  • VAN BRUGGEN, A. C. 1966 a. Notes on non-marine molluscs from Mozambique and Bechuanaland, with a checklist of Bechuanaland species. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 25 (6): 99-111, pl. 10. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA00411752_297
  • BROWN, D. S. 1967. A review of the freshwater Mollusca of Natal and their distribution. Annals of the Natal Museum 18 (3): 477-494. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA03040798_732
  • MANDAHL-BARTH, G. 1988. Studies on African freshwater bivalves. Charlottenlund, Denmark: Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory. https://ivh.ku.dk/research-files/pap-gamle-pdf-filer/docs/fg_1988_bivalvia.pdf