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Bivalvia | Unionida | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Hyriinae | Hyridellini

genus Virgus Simpson, 1900: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Virgus Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 851.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 1150.
Type species: Unio (Diplodon) beccarianus Tapparone Canefri, 1883 (orig. desig.) = Virgus beccarianus

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Virgus — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), McMichael (1956), McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Haas (1969), Walker et al. (2001), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Walker et al. (2014), Graf & Cummings (2021), Sahidin et al. (2021)
Virgus (s.s.) — Haas (1912), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969)

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