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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini

genus Delphinonaias Crosse & Fischer, 1894: synonymy

2 Recent freshwater species (2 total species)

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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. Delphinonaias) — Thiele (1934)
Lampsilis (sec. Phyllonaias) — Thiele (1934)
Leptodea — Goodrich & van der Schalie (1937)
Lampsilis (Phyllonaias) — Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Potamilus — Graf & Cummings (2007)
Delphinonaias — Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Zieritz et al. (2013), Graf & Cummings (2021), Czaja et al. (2023), Cummings et al. (2025)