Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini
1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)
Rafinesque, 1820. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 301.
Rafinesque, 1831. Continuation: 3.
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 46, 75.
Type species: Obliquaria (Quadrula) reflexa Rafinesque, 1820 (sub. desig. by Simpson, 1900: 610) = Obliquaria reflexa
d’Orbigny, 1846. Dict. Univ. Hist. Nat. 8: 709.
(error for Obliquaria Rafinesque, 1820)
Type species: Obliquaria (Quadrula) reflexa Rafinesque, 1820 = Obliquaria reflexa
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Obliquaria, since 1900.
Obliquaria — Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910), Ortmann (1912), Simpson (1914), ... Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Freeman et al. (2025), FMCS (2025)
Unio (s.s.) — Call (1900)
Pleurobema (Plethobasus) — Frierson (1927)
Plethobasus — Haas (1969)
Dysnomia — Burch (1975)
Epioblasma — Cummings & Mayer (1997), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Cicerello & Schuster (2003), Watters et al. (2009)