Bivalvia | Adapedonta | Solenoidea | Pharidae | Pharellinae

genus Novaculina Benson, 1830: synonymy

3 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)

Synonymy

Novaculina Benson, 1830

Benson, 1830. Glean. Sci. 2: 63.
Type species: Novaculina gangetica Benson, 1830 (monotypy) = Novaculina gangetica

Loncosilla Rafinesque, 1831

Rafinesque, 1831. Continuation: 7.
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 84.
Type species: Loncosilla solenoides Rafinesque, 1831 (monotypy) = Novaculina gangetica

Leucosilla Scudder, 1882

‘Rafinesque’ of Authors.
Scudder, 1882. Nomen. Zool., Suppl.: 187. [nomen nudum]
Cox et al., 1969. Treatise on Invert. Paleo 2: N862.
Williams et al., 2008. Freshw. Mussels AL and Mobile Basin: 102.
(error for Loncosilla Rafinesque, 1831)
Type species: Loncosilla solenoides Rafinesque, 1831 = Novaculina gangetica

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Novaculina — Ghosh (1920), Subba Rao (1989), Nesemann et al. (2003), Nesemann et al. (2007), Bogan (2010), ... Kondakov et al. (2020), Win et al. (2021), Bolotov et al. (2022), Jeratthitikul & Sutcharit (2024), Huang et al. (2025)