Bivalvia | Unionida | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Velesunioninae

genus Microdontia Tapparone Canefri, 1883: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Microdontia Tapparone Canefri, 1883

Tapparone Canefri, 1883. Ann. Mus. Storia Nat. Genova 19: 295.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Type species: Unio (Microdontia) anodontaeformis Tapparone Canefri, 1883 (monotypy) = Microdontia anodontaeformis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Nodularia (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Microdontia — Haas (1913), McMichael (1956), McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Haas (1969), Hadl (1976), ... Bolotov et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Sahidin et al. (2021), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Cristadens — Simpson (1914)
Ctenodesma (Nesonaia) — Haas (1924)