Bivalvia | Unionida | Etherioidea | Iridinidae | Aspathariinae

genus Aspatharia Bourguignat, 1886: synonymy

11 Recent freshwater species (11 total species)

Synonymy

Aspatharia Bourguignat, 1886

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Spatha Lea, 1838)
Bourguignat, 1886. Esp. Nouv. et Genres Nouv. Lac Oukékérewe et Tanganika: 14.
Type species: Margaritana vignouana Bernardi, 1859 (orig. desig.) = Aspatharia rugifera

Asphataria Rochebrune & Germain, 1904

(error for Aspatharia Bourguignat, 1886)
Rochebrune & Germain, 1904. Mém. Soc. Zool. France 17: 24.
Type species: Margaritana vignouana Bernardi, 1859 = Aspatharia rugifera

Aspatheria Crowley, 1964

(error for Aspatharia Bourguignat, 1886)
Crowley, 1964. J. of Conch. 25: ??.
Type species: Margaritana vignouana Bernardi, 1859 = Aspatharia rugifera

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Spatha (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Kobelt (1910), Simpson (1914)
Spatha (Aspatharia) — Simpson (1900), Kobelt (1910), Simpson (1914), Ortmann (1918), Germain (1925)
Spatha — Pallary (1903), Germain (1907), Pallary (1909), Ortmann (1910), Frierson (1913), Simpson (1914), Pallary (1924)
Spatha (Spathella) — Kobelt (1904)
Mutelina — Germain (1907)
Leptospatha — Pallary (1909), Pallary (1924)
Spatha (Leptospatha) — Kobelt (1910)
Anodontites (s.s.) — Simpson (1914), Haas (1969)
Anodonta — Simpson (1914)
Aspatharia (s.s.) — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1929), Haas (1936), Connolly (1939), Franc (1949), Leloup (1950), Crowley et al. (1964), Mandahl-Barth (1968), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Appleton (1979)
Aspatharia (Spathopsis) — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1929), Haas (1936), Franc (1949), Leloup (1950), Mandahl-Barth (1968), Haas (1969)
Mutela (s.s.) — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969)
Aspatharia — Clench (1929), Connolly (1931), Thiele (1934), Modell (1942), Daget (1962), ... Wu et al. (2021), Akindele et al. (2023), Bolotov et al. (2024), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Mutela — Franc (1949), Van Damme (1984)
Spathopsis — Van Damme (1984), Mandahl-Barth (1988), Ibrahim et al. (1999)
Chambardia — Daget (1998), Bolotov et al. (2024)