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genus Pseudodon Gould, 1844: synonymy

9 Recent freshwater species (9 total species)

Synonymy

Pseudodon Gould, 1844

Gould, 1844. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1: 161.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Anodon Oken, 1815; renamed Pseudodus Morgan, 1885)
Type species: Anodon inoscularis Gould, 1844 (orig. desig.) = Pseudodon inoscularis

Monodontina Conrad, 1853

Conrad, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 269.
Type species: Margaritana vondembuschiana Lea, 1840 (orig. desig.) = Pseudodon vondembuschianus

Pseudodus Morgan, 1885

Morgan, 1885. Bull. Soc. Zool. France 10: 422.
(error for Pseudodon Gould, 1844)
Type species: Anodon inoscularis Gould, 1844 = Pseudodon inoscularis

Suborbiculus Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 835.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 1081.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Pseudodon Gould, 1844)
Type species: Monocondylus orbicularis Morelet, 1866 (orig. desig.) = Pseudodon cambodjensis

Diplopseudodon Haas, 1920

Haas, 1920. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 53): 313.
Haas, 1924. Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 38: 129.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Pseudodon Gould, 1844)
Type species: Pseudodon crassus Drouët in Drouët & Chaper, 1892 (orig. desig.) = Pseudodon walpolei

Psudodon Heude, 1885

Heude, 1885. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (9): pl. 72.
(error for Pseudodon Gould, 1844)
Type species: Anodon inoscularis Gould, 1844 = Pseudodon inoscularis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Dalliella — Simpson (1900)
Pseudodon (sec. Suborbiculus) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Pseudodon (sec. Trigonodon) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Preston (1915)
Pseudodon (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Preston (1915), Haas (1920), Haas (1924), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Subba Rao (1989), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Pseudodon — Simpson (1900), Martens (1900), Prashad (1922), Modell (1942), van Benthem Jutting (1953), ... Dai et al. (2025), Konopleva et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Unio — Martens (1900)
Pseudodon (Trigonodon) — Preston (1912), Haas (1924), Haas (1969)
Simpsonella — Simpson (1914)
Cristaria (Pletholophus) — Simpson (1914), Haas (1969)
Nodularia (s.s.) — Simpson (1914)
Margaritana — de Gregorio (1914)
Monodontina — Prashad (1919), Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2019), ... Jeratthitikul & Sutcharit (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Bolotov et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025)
Pseudodon (Diplopseudodon) — Haas (1920), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Pseudodon (Monodontina) — Haas (1920), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Pseudodon (Bineurus) — Haas (1920), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Pseudodon (sec. Diplopseudodon) — Thiele (1934)
Cristaria — IUCN (2012)