The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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nominal species Galatea chemnitzii Philippi, 1851

Philippi, 1851, Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 124.
(new name for Venus aegyptiaca Chemnitz, 1795)

= Galatea bengoensis

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Galatea laeta R.A. Philippi, 1848 — Huber, 2010
+ Egeria aegyptiaca (Philippi, 1851) — Daget, 1998
= Egeria chemnitzii (Philippi, 1851) — Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927
+ Galatea ægyptiaca Chemn. — Bernardi, 1860
+ Galatea ægyptiaca Chem. — Fischer, 1857

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