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genus Pseudodon Gould, 1844: synonymy

9 Recent freshwater species (9 total species)

Synonymy

Pseudodon Gould, 1844

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

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

Psudodon Heude, 1885

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

Suborbiculus Simpson, 1900

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

Diplopseudodon Haas, 1920

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

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

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)
Pseudodon — Martens (1900), Prashad (1922), Modell (1942), van Benthem Jutting (1953), Brandt (1974), ... Chen et al. (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Zieritz et al. (2026)
Pseudodon (sec. Suborbiculus) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) — Simpson (1900)
Pseudodon (sec. Trigonodon) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Preston (1915)
Dalliella — Simpson (1900)
Unio — Martens (1900)
Pseudodon (Trigonodon) — Preston (1912), Haas (1924), Haas (1969)
Margaritana — de Gregorio (1914)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) (Group of H. vagula) — Simpson (1914)
Cristaria (Pletholophus) — Simpson (1914), Haas (1969)
Simpsonella — Simpson (1914)
Nodularia (s.s.) — Simpson (1914)
Monodontina — Prashad (1919), Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2019), ... Wu et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Bolotov et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Konopleva et al. (2026)
Pseudodon (Monodontina) — Haas (1920), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Pseudodon (Diplopseudodon) — Haas (1920), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Pseudodon (Bineurus) — Haas (1920), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Cristaria — Haas (1930), IUCN (2012)
Pseudodon (sec. Diplopseudodon) — Thiele (1934)