''Chambardia wissmanni'' is a species of freshwater

bivalve Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class (biology), class of aquatic animal, aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have laterally compressed soft bodies enclosed b ...

in the family

Iridinidae Iridinidae is a family of medium-sized freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the order Unionida. Genera Genera within the family Iridinidae: * '' Aspatharia'' Bourguignat, 1885 (monotypic) * '' Chambardia'' Bourguignat, 1891 ** '' Cham ...

. It is widely distributed in the

Congo River Basin The Congo River, formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second-longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the third-largest river in the world list of rivers by discharge, by discharge volume, following the Amazon Ri ...

in Central Africa, extending into West Africa as far as Mali, possibly further. It inhabits

river A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...

s and has also been reported from

Lake Tanganyika Lake Tanganyika ( ; ) is an African Great Lakes, African Great Lake. It is the world's List of lakes by volume, second-largest freshwater lake by volume and the List of lakes by depth, second deepest, in both cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. ...

References

Unionida Bivalves of Africa Freshwater bivalves Invertebrates of Burundi Molluscs described in 1883 Taxa named by Eduard von Martens Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Bivalve-stub