Bivalvia | Myida | Dreissenoidea | Dreissenidae
7 Recent freshwater species (13 total species)
of Authors.
Philippi, 1853. Handb. Conch. Mal.: 364.
Grimm, 1876. Kaspinskoe Fauna: 143.
Grimm, 1877. Kaspinskoe Fauna (2): 71.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
‘van Beneden’ of Authors.
Bronn, 1862. Klass. Ord., Weichthiere 3: 352, 360, 364, etc.
Locard, 1883. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lyon 3: 260.
Morlet, 1889. J. de Conch. 37: 162.
Locard, 1893. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 1: 126.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
Rossmässler, 1835. Icon. Land- und Süssw.-Moll. 1 (1): 112.
Type species: Tichogonia chemnitzii Rossmässler, 1835 (monotypy) = Dreissena polymorpha
Van Beneden, 1835. Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 25.
Van Beneden, 1835. Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 44.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
Van Beneden, 1835. Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 25. [nomen nudum]
Van Beneden, 1835. Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: 44.
Type species: Mytulus polymorphus Pallas, 1771 = Dreissena polymorpha
Van Beneden, 1835. Bull. Acad. roy. sci. lett. beaux-arts Belg. 2: index, iii.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
Cantraine, 1837. Ann. des Sci. Nat. 7: 302, 306.
(homonym of Bory de St. Vincent, 1824 [Rotifera])
Type species: Mytulus polymorphus Pallas, 1771 (sub. desig. by Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 456) = Dreissena polymorpha
Berge, 1847. Conch.-Buch: 83.
(error for Tichogonia Rossmässler, 1835)
Type species: Tichogonia chemnitzii Rossmässler, 1835 = Dreissena polymorpha
Moquin-Tandon, 1855. Hist. Natur. Moll. France 2: 547, 598.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
Delwaque, 1863. Bull. Soc. Géol. France 20(2): 797.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
Munier-Chalmas, 1864. Bull. Soc. linn. Normandie 8: 97.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
Schaufuss, 1869. Moll. Syst. Cat. Paetel 7: 22.
(error for Mytilomya Bronn, 1838)
‘Vanbeneden’ Conrad, 1874. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 26: 29.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
Hebert & Munier-Chalmas, 1877. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 85: 126.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
Miller, 1879. Malak. Blatt. 1: 179.
Clessin, 1880. Malak. Blatt. 2: 148.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
Bernard, 1895. Elém. Paléont.: 561.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
Gillet, 1922. Bull. Soc. Hist. nat. Yonne 75(2): 84.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
Kennard & Woodward, 1926. Syn. Brit. non-marine Moll.: 295.
(error for Mytilina Cantraine, 1837)
Germain, 1931. Faune de France 22: 775.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
Logvinenko & Starobogatov, 1966. Biol. Nauki 2: 15.
Type species: Mytilus rostriformis Deshayes, 1838 (orig. desig.) = Dreissena rostriformis
Hata et al., 2022. Hydrobiologia 849: 2637.
(error for Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
Type species: Mytulus polymorphus Pallas, 1771 = Dreissena polymorpha
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Dreissena, since 1900.
Dreissena — Zhadin (1965), Oesch (1984), Vidrine (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), Claxton et al. (1998), ... Prié et al. (2023), Jihad (2023), FMCS (2025), Travina et al. (2025), Huang et al. (2025)
Dreissena (s.s.) — Nuttall (1990), Rosenberg & Ludyanskiy (1994), Starobogatov et al. (2004), May et al. (2006), Bank (2006), Huber (2010), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Dreissena (Pontodreissena) — Nuttall (1990), Rosenberg & Ludyanskiy (1994), Starobogatov et al. (2004), May et al. (2006), Huber (2010), Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Dreissena (Carinodreissena) — Rosenberg & Ludyanskiy (1994), May et al. (2006), Huber (2010)
Dreisena [sic] — Klymus et al. (2020)
Dreisseina [sic] — Hata et al. (2022)