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genus Sinohyriopsis Starobogatov, 1970: synonymy

3 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)

Synonymy

Nipponihyria Starobogatov, 1970

Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 67, 286.
Type species: Unio schlegelii Martens, 1861 (orig. desig.) = Sinohyriopsis schlegelii

Sinohyriopsis Starobogatov, 1970

Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 67, 286.
Type species: Unio cumingii Lea, 1852 (orig. desig.) = Sinohyriopsis cumingii

Nipponohyria Habe, 1991

(error for Nipponihyria Starobogatov, 1970)
‘Starobogatov’ Habe, 1991. Hitachiobi 56: 4.
Type species: Unio schlegelii Martens, 1861 = Sinohyriopsis schlegelii

Nipponihyra Lopes-Lima et al., 2020

(error for Nipponihyria Starobogatov, 1970)
‘Starobogatov’ Lopes-Lima et al., 2020. MPE 146: Appendix 1.
Type species: Unio schlegelii Martens, 1861 = Sinohyriopsis schlegelii

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Sinohyriopsis, since 1900.

Hyriopsis (s.s.) — Simpson (1900)
Simpsonia — Rochebrune (1904), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Hyriopsis) — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Hyriopsis — Preston (1912), Haas (1924), Krejci-Graf & Wenz (1932), Kuroda (1963), Haas (1969), ... Chen et al. (2020), Varshney et al. (2020), Smith (2021), Pavan-Kumar et al. (2022), Ma et al. (2024)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) (Group of H. cumingii) — Simpson (1914)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) (Group of H. schlegeli) — Simpson (1914)
Chamberlainia — Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Brandt (1974), IUCN (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Do et al. (2018)
Sinohyriopsis — Starobogatov (1970), Dang et al. (1980), Prozorova et al. (2005), Gozhik (2006), Fonseca et al. (2016), ... Ishii et al. (2025), Choi & Lee (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Li et al. (2026)
Nipponihyria — Starobogatov (1970), Gozhik (2006)
Hyriopsis (Sinohyriopsis) — Habe (1977), Habe (1991)
Hyriopsis (S.) — Ugai (2001)