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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae

genus Germainaia Graf & Cummings, 2009: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

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Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Unio (Nodularia) — Germain (1911)
Nodularia (sec. Cælatura [sic]) — Simpson (1914)
Nodularia (Caelatura [sic]) — Germain (1918)
Caelatura [sic] (s.s.) — Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] (Zairia) — Fischer-Piette & Vukadinovic (1973)
Coelatura — Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Germainaia — Graf & Cummings (2009), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), IUCN (2016), Graf & Cummings (2021)