Chambardia petersi (E. von Martens, 1860 )

Rapalai, Boikhutso Lerato, 2024, An annotated checklist of molluscs recorded from Botswana, Indago: Investigating nature and humanity in Africa (Oxford, England) 41 (10), pp. 15-44 : 19

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13132605

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15566413

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scientific name

Chambardia petersi (E. von Martens, 1860 )
status

 

6. Chambardia petersi (E. von Martens, 1860) View in CoL

Distribution and year: Limpopo River, Stevenford Game Reserve 1984 ( Appleton & Curtis 2007).

Geographic range: Botswana, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Habitat: Freshwater.

Notes: The species is confined to the lower Zambezi, Limpopo and Incomati River catchments ( Appleton & Curtis 2007). The molluscs occur in both large and small flowing waterbodies, and are capable of surviving in semi-arid regions (Van Damme et al. 2018 a) .

Type locality: In Mozambique ( Martens 1860) .

Source: Appleton & Curtis (2007: 51).

Conservation status: Least Concern.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Bivalvia

Order

Unionida

Family

Iridinidae

Genus

Chambardia

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