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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Anodontina

genus Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1876: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1876

Bourguignat, 1876. Bull. Soc. Sci. Phys. Nat. Toulouse 3: 99.
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 11, 3.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Pseudodon Gould, 1844)
Type species: Anodonta complanata Rossmässler, 1835 (sub. desig. by Westerlund, 1902: 137) = Pseudanodonta complanata

Elongatiana Servain, 1888

Servain, 1888. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 5: 325.
‘Bourguignat MS’ Locard, 1890. Contr. Faune Malacol. Franc. 14: 11 [55, 59].
Servain, 1890. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 7: 302.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1876)
Type species: Pseudanodonta ligerica Bourguignat, 1880 (sub. desig. by Graf, 2010: 11) = Pseudanodonta complanata

Complanatiana Servain, 1890

Servain, 1890. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 7: 301.
‘Bourguignat MS’ Locard, 1890. Contr. Faune Malacol. Franc. 14: 11 [55].
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1876)
Type species: Anodonta complanata Rossmässler, 1835 (sub. desig. by Graf, 2010: 9) = Pseudanodonta complanata

Rayana Servain, 1890

Servain, 1890. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 7: 301.
‘Bourguignat MS’ Locard, 1890. Contr. Faune Malacol. Franc. 14: 14 [55, 58].
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1876)
Type species: Pseudanodonta rayi Bourguignat, 1880 (sub. desig. by Locard, 1890: 14) = Pseudanodonta complanata

Rossmassleriana Servain, 1890

Servain, 1890. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 7: 301.
Locard, 1890. Contr. Faune Malacol. Franc. 14: 11.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1876)
Type species: Pseudanodonta rossmaessleri Bourguignat, 1880 (sub. desig. by Locard, 1890: 11) = Pseudanodonta complanata

Scrupeana Servain, 1890

Servain, 1890. Bull. Soc. Malac. France 7: 301.
‘Bourguignat MS’ Locard, 1890. Contr. Faune Malacol. Franc. 14: 14 [55, 58].
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1876)
Type species: Pseudanodonta scrupea Bourguignat, 1880 (sub. desig. by Locard, 1890: 14) = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudoanodonta Picaglia, 1893

‘Bourguignat’ of Authors.
Picaglia, 1893. Boll. Soc. Malac. Ital. 18: 117.
Westerlund, 1902. Rad. Jugoslav. Akad. 150: 137.
(error for Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1876)
Type species: Anodonta complanata Rossmässler, 1835 = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudoodonta Picaglia, 1893

‘Bourguignat’ of Authors.
Picaglia, 1893. Boll. Soc. Malac. Ital. 18: 117.
Kennard & Woodward, 1924. Proc. Malac. Soc. London 16: ??.
(error for Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1876)
Type species: Anodonta complanata Rossmässler, 1835 = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudonodonta Preston, 1914

Preston, 1914. Zool. Rec. 50: 84.
(error for Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1876)
Type species: Anodonta complanata Rossmässler, 1835 = Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseuanodonta Kennard & Woodward, 1926

Kennard & Woodward, 1926. Syn. Brit. non-marine Moll.: 334.
(error for Pseudanodonta Bourguignat, 1876)
Type species: Anodonta complanata Rossmässler, 1835 = Pseudanodonta complanata

Rossmaessleriana Locard, 1890

Bourguignat in Locard, 1890. Contr. Faune Malacol. Franc. 14: 55 [as ‘Rossmässleriana’].
Martens, 1891. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 23(1-2): 15 [as ‘Rossmässleriana’].
(error for Rossmassleriana Servain, 1890)
Type species: Pseudanodonta rossmaessleri Bourguignat, 1880 = Pseudanodonta complanata

Rayiana Germain, 1904

Germain, 1904. Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Ouest France 4: 284.
(error for Rayana Servain, 1890)
Type species: Pseudanodonta rayi Bourguignat, 1880 = Pseudanodonta complanata

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

AnodontaSimpson (1900), Ortmann (1912), Simpson (1914), Germain (1931), Haas (1940), Dyduch-Falniowska & Koziol (1989), Kantor et al. (2010)
PilsbryoconchaSimpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914)
PseudanodontaRochebrune (1903), Germain (1904), Kobelt (1904), Kobelt & Haas (1910), Haas (1913), ... Sundberg et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Perkins et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)
Pseudanodonta (Rossmassleriana)Germain (1904)
Pseudanodonta (Scrupeana)Germain (1904)
Pseudanodonta (Rayiana) [sic]Germain (1904)
Anodonta (Pseudanodonta)Zhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965)
Anodonta (s.s.)Haas (1969)

 
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