The Systematic Position of Unio Caffer (Pelecypoda: Unionoida: Unionidae)

Abstract

Some anatomical, adult shell and larval features of Unto coffer Krauss are described and compared to those reported in previous accounts of this and other species. The findings necessitate the removal of U. caffer from the nominal genus Cafferia Simpson, for which it is the type species, and its return to the genus Unio Pbilipsson, in the Unionidae: Unioninae. Cafferia consequently becomes a junior subjective synonym of Unto.