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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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This page documents data for Kobelt (1886), such as genera and species attributed to that publication (including known misspellings, misidentifications, and other unavailable names) as well as taxonomic opinions, if available. Taxonomic opinions refer to uses of genera and species as valid and invalid in that work. The MUSSEL Project Database has moved to a new server, with a new URL! The new address for this page is: https://musselpdb.org/db.php?ty=publ&id=763 
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 Publication information 
Kobelt, W. 1886. Iconographie der Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten von E.A. Rossmässler 2. 54 pp., pls. 31-60. 
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Attributed Species Names
  Unio medjerdae Kobelt, 1884
     Kobelt, 1884, Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 16: 183.
     Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: 23, pl. 42, figs. 257-259.
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  Unio micelii Kobelt, 1884
     Kobelt, 1884, Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 16: 182.
     Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: 24, pl. 43, figs. 260-261.
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  Unio raddei var. koutaisiana Kobelt, 1886
     Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: 40, pl. 52, fig. 283.
    (intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio raddei Drouët, 1881)
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  Unio letourneuxi Kobelt, 1886
     Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: 3, pl. 32, fig. 227.
    (misidentified reference to Unio letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1864)
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  Unio maccarthyanus Kobelt, 1886
     Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: 5, pl. 33, fig. 229 [as ‘mac carthyanus’].
    (reference to Unio maccarthyanus Bourguignat, 1866)
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  Unio hueti Kobelt, 1886
     ‘Bourg.’ Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: 22, pl. 41, fig. 255.
    (misidentified reference to Unio hueti Bourguignat, 1855)
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  Unio sieversi Kobelt, 1886
     Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: pl. 53, fig. 286.
    (misidentified reference to Unio sieversi Drouët, 1881)
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  Margaritana freytagi Kobelt, 1886
      Kobelt, 1886, Jb. Nassau. Ver. Naturk. 39: 98, pl. 8, figs. 1-4.
     Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: 45, pl. 55, figs. 291-294.
    Type(s): LECTOTYPE SMF_4984, Nister b. Hachenburg.
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  Unio mossulensis Kobelt, 1886
    ‘Lea’  of Authors.
     Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: 22.
     Paetel, 1890, Cat. Conch.-Samml. 3: 173.
     ‘Lea’ Westerlund, 1890, Fauna Paläarct. Binnenconch. 2(7): 171.
    (error for Unio mosulensis Lea, 1863)
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  Unio kochii Kobelt, 1886
     Sandberger & Koch, 1851, Jb. Nassau. Ver. Naturk. 7: 245 [as ‘U. moquinianus’].
     Kobelt, 1886, Jb. Nassau. Ver. Naturk. 39: 97, pl. 6, fig. 1.
     Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: 46, pl. 56, figs. 295-296.
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  Unio neocomiensis Kobelt, 1886
     ‘Drouët’ Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: 34.
    (error for Unio neocomensis Drouët, 1881)
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  Unio rhenanus Kobelt, 1886
     Kobelt, 1886, Jb. Nassau. Ver. Naturk. 39: 96, pl. 5, fig. 3.
     Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: 48, pl. 56, fig. 297.
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  Unio jolyi Kobelt, 1886
     ‘(Bourg.?)’ Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: 22, pl. 41, fig. 256.
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  Unio jonicus Kobelt, 1886
     ‘Drouët’  of Authors.
     Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: 43.
     Westerlund, 1890, Fauna Paläarct. Binnenconch. 2(7): 153.
     Kobelt, 1893, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 6: 87.
     Haas, 1940, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. 24: 131.
     Haas, 1969, Das Tierreich 88: 52.
     Lopes-Lima et al., 2017, Biol. Rev. 92(1): 578.
     Lyubas et al., 2022, Diversity 14(11), 935: Table S3.
    (error for Unio ionicus Drouët, 1879)
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  Margaritana euphratica Kobelt, 1886
     ‘Bourguignat’ Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: 26, pl. 45, fig. 266.
    (reference to Unio euphraticus Bourguignat, 1852)
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  Unio sieversi var. kobelti Westerlund, 1890
     Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: pl. 53, fig. 286 [as ‘U. sieversi’].
     Westerlund, 1890, Fauna Paläarct. Binnenconch. 2(7): 151.
    (intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio sieversi Drouët, 1881; homonym of Unio kobelti Neumayr, 1899)
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  Unio (sec. Lymnium) pseudonymus Simpson, 1900
     ‘Bourg.’ Kobelt, 1886, Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 2: 22, pl. 41, fig. 255 [as ‘U. hueti’].
     Simpson, 1900, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 694.
     Simpson, 1914, Descr. Cat. Naiades: 560.
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Taxonomic Opinions
	 Anodonta alseria Drouët
	 
	Anodonta benacensis Villa
	 
	Anodonta cristata Drouët
	 
	Anodonta leprosa Parreyss ex rec. Drouët
	 
	Anodonta longirostris Drouët
	 
	Anodonta romana Drouët
	 
	Anodonta scapulosa Drouët
	 
	Anodonta utinensis Drouët
	 
	Margaritana euphratica (Bourguignat)
	 
	Margaritana freytagi Kobelt, 1886
	 
	Margaritana gibbosa (Drouët, 1879)
	 
	Margaritana squamosa (Drouët, 1879)
	 
	Margaritana truncata (Drouët)
	 
	Spatha caillaudi von Martens
	 + Anodonta rubens Lamarck, 1819
	 
	Unio aegyptiacus Férussac
	 + Unio niloticus Cailliaud, 1827
	 + Unio inflata Cristofori & Jan, 1832
	 + Unio pumilus Lea, 1852
	 + Unio rugifer Küster, 1856
	 + Unio niloticus Sowerby, 1868
	 + Unio aegyptiacus Jickeli, 1874
	 + Unio aegyptiacus Jickeli, 1874
	 + Unio aegyptiacus Jickeli, 1874
	 + Unio aegyptiacus Jickeli, 1874
	 + Unio aegyptiacus Jickeli, 1874
	 
	Unio araxenus Drouët
	 
	Unio athesinus Adami mss.
	 
	Unio bayonnensis de Folin & Bérillon
	 + Unio moreleti Folin & Bérillon, 1874
	 + Unio moreletianus Folin & Bérillon, 1877
	 
	Unio benacinus Drouët
	 
	Unio brianteus Pini
	 
	Unio campanus Blanc
	 
	Unio colchicus Drouët
	 
	Unio corrosus Villa
	 
	Unio croaticus Drouët, 1881
	 
	Unio decipiens Drouët, 1881
	 
	Unio dokici Drouët
	 
	Unio etruscus Drouët
	 
	Unio gaudioni Drouët, 1881
	 
	Unio glaucinus Ziegler
	 
	Unio gredleri Drouët
	 + Unio ovalis var. intercedens Gredler, 1860
	 
	Unio hueti Bourguignat
	 + Unio mussolianus Küster, 1861
	 + Unio mosulensis Lea, 1863
	 
	Unio idrinus Drouët
	 
	Unio jolyi (Bourg.?)
	 
	Unio jonicus [sic] Drouët, 1879
	 
	Unio kochi Kobelt, 1886
	 + Unio moquinianus Sandberger & Koch, 1851
	 
	Unio larius Drouët
	 + Unio robustus Drouët, 1879
	 
	Unio letourneuxi Bourguignat
	 
	Unio longobardus Pini
	 
	Unio mac carthyanus Bourguignat
	 
	Unio mauritanicus Bourguignat
	 
	Unio medjerdae n. sp.
	 
	Unio meridionalis Pini
	 
	Unio micelii n. sp.
	 
	Unio mingrelicus Drouët
	 
	Unio minusculus Drouët
	 
	Unio moreleti DeShayes
	 
	Unio neocomiensis [sic] Drouët, 1881
	 
	Unio nitidosus Drouët, 1879
	 
	Unio nitidus Drouët
	 
	Unio oriliensis Stabile
	 
	Unio pancici Drouët
	 
	Unio polii Drouët
	 
	Unio raddei Drouët
	 
	Unio raddei var. koutaisiana n.
	 
	Unio rhenanus Kobelt, 1886
	 
	Unio rivalis Drouët
	 
	Unio ruffonii Adami mss.
	 
	Unio serbicus Drouët
	 
	Unio sieversi Drouët
	 
	Unio siliquatus Drouët
	 
	Unio stepanoffi Drouët
	 
	Unio stephanini Adami, 1882
	 
	Unio stevenianus Krynicki
	 + Unio gontierii Bourguignat, 1856
	 
	Unio striatulus Drouët
	 
	Unio subcylindricus Pini
	 
	Unio subtilis Drouët, 1879
	 
	Unio succineus Drouët
	 
	Unio tigridis Ferussac
	 + Unio truncatus Swainson, 1823
	 + Unio dignatus Lea, 1863
	 
	Unio truncatulus Drouët
	 
	Unio veillanensis Blanc
	 
	Unio villae Stabile
	 
	Unio vulgaris Stabile (Drouët)
	 
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