Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini

genus Delphinonaias Crosse & Fischer, 1894: synonymy

2 Recent freshwater species (2 total species)

Synonymy

Delphinonaias Fischer & Crosse, 1894

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Fischer & Crosse, 1894. Miss. Sci. Mexique, Rech. Zool. 2(15): 555.
Type species: Unio delphinulus Morelet, 1849 (orig. desig.) = Delphinonaias largillierti

Phyllonaias Fischer & Crosse, 1894

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Fischer & Crosse, 1894. Miss. Sci. Mexique, Rech. Zool. 2(15): 555.
Type species: Unio paludosus Morelet, 1849 (orig. desig.) = Delphinonaias largillierti

Delphinonais Frierson, 1927

(error for Delphinonaias Fischer & Crosse, 1894)
‘Crosse & Fischer’ Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 84.
Type species: Unio delphinulus Morelet, 1849 = Delphinonaias largillierti

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Lampsilis (Proptera) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Metaptera) — Martens (1900)
Lampsilis (Delphinonaias) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1929), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Lampsilis (sec. Phyllonaias) — Thiele (1934)
Lampsilis (sec. Delphinonaias) — Thiele (1934)
Leptodea — Goodrich & van der Schalie (1937)
Lampsilis (Phyllonaias) — Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Delphinonaias — Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Zieritz et al. (2013), Graf & Cummings (2021), Czaja et al. (2023), Cummings et al. (2025)
Potamilus — Graf & Cummings (2007)