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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.

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 — 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)
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)