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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini

genus Aculamprotula Wu, Liang, Wang & Ouyang, 1999: synonymy

9 Recent freshwater species (9 total species)

Synonymy

Scriptolamprotula Modell, 1964

Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 110.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Lamprotula Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Unio scriptus Heude, 1875 (orig. desig.) = Aculamprotula scripta

Aculamprotula Wu et al., 1999

Wu, 1998. Stud. Freshw. Shellf. Yangze: ??.
Wu et al., 1999. Acta Hydrobiol. Sinica 23 supplement: 141.
Type species: Unio fibrosus Heude, 1877 (monotypy) = Aculamprotula fibrosa

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Quadrula (Lamprotula)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Lamprotula)Martens (1905)
Unio (Quadrula)Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
LamprotulaHaas (1920), Modell (1942), Haas (1969), Kil (1976), Habe (1977), ... Froufe et al. (2019), Fukata & Iigo (2020), Sano et al. (2020), Chen et al. (2020), Wu et al. (2021)
AculamprotulaWu et al. (1999), Bogan (2010), Pfeiffer & Graf (2013), He & Zhuang (2013), Bogan (2013), ... Hou et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)
Lamprotula (Scriptolamprotula)Yu et al. (2001)
GibbosulaLopes-Lima et al. (2018), Vikhrev et al. (2019), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)

 
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