Bivalvia | Cardiida | Tellinoidea | Donacidae

genus Galatea Bruguière, 1797: synonymy

2 Recent freshwater species (8 total species)

Synonymy

Galatea Bruguière, 1797

Bruguière, 1797. Encycl. Méth. 2: pl. 250.
Type species: Galathea radiata Lamarck, 1804 = Galatea paradoxa

Galathea Lamarck, 1804

Lamarck, 1804. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 5: 431.
(homonym of Fabricius, 1793; renamed Egeria de Roissy, 1805; renamed Potamophila G.B. Sowerby, 1821)
Type species: Galathea radiata Lamarck, 1804 (monotypy) = Galatea paradoxa

Egeria de Roissy, 1805

de Roissy, 1805. Hist. Nat. Moll. 6: 324.
(new name for Galathea Lamarck, 1804)
Type species: Galathea radiata Lamarck, 1804 = Galatea paradoxa

Potamophila G.B. Sowerby, 1821

G.B. Sowerby, 1821. Genera of Shells 2: pl. 66.
(new name for Galathea Lamarck, 1804)
Type species: Galathea radiata Lamarck, 1804 = Galatea paradoxa

Megadesma Bowdich, 1822

Bowdich, 1822. unknown publication: 8, fig. 21.
(new name for Galathea Lamarck, 1804)
Type species: Galathea radiata Lamarck, 1804 = Galatea paradoxa

Galataea Leach, 1823

Leach, 1823. unknown publication: 59.
(error for Galatea Bruguière, 1797)
Type species: Galathea radiata Lamarck, 1804 = Galatea paradoxa

Galateola Herrmannsen, 1846

Fleming, 1828. Hist. Brit. Anim.: 409. [nomen nudum]
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: 458.

Galathaea Bory de St. Vincent, 1827

Bory de St. Vincent, 1827. Encycl. Méth. 2: 151.
Deshayes, 1832. Enc. Méth. 2 (Deuxième partie): 163 [as ‘Galathæa’].
Sowerby, 1839. Conch. Man.: 88.
(error for Galatea Bruguière, 1797)
Type species: Galathea radiata Lamarck, 1804 = Galatea paradoxa

Galateia Brito Capello, 1878

Brito Capello, 1878. unknown publication: 2.
(error for Galatea Bruguière, 1797)
Type species: Galathea radiata Lamarck, 1804 = Galatea paradoxa

Galatheia Dautzenberg, 1891

Dautzenberg, 1891. unknown publication: 576.
(error for Galatea Bruguière, 1797)
Type species: Galathea radiata Lamarck, 1804 = Galatea paradoxa

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Egeria (s.s.) — Dall (1903)
Galatea — Pallary (1909), Huber (2010), WoRMS (2011), Kondakov et al. (2020)
Egeria — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Clench (1929), Thiele (1934), Daget (1998), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2010)