Home | About | Database | Mussel of the Month | Publications & Presentations

MUSSELpdb

Introduction

Browse

d'basing

Cladomics


Search the MUSSELpdb

Taxonomy

all genera

Summary

Unionidae

Margaritiferidae

Hyriidae

Etheriidae

Mycetopodidae

Iridinidae


Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
by Taxonomy


Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
by Family

Geography

Summary

North America

Central America

South America

Afrotropics

North Eurasia

East Asia

Australasia


Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
by Geography


Data last updated
Thu 19 March 2026

Bivalvia | Cardiida | Cardioidea | Cardiidae

genus Didacna Eichwald, 1838: synonymy

0 Recent freshwater species (10 total species)

Synonymy

Didacna Eichwald, 1838

Eichwald, 1838. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 11: 166.
Type species: Cardium trigonoides Pallas, 1771 = Didacna trigonoides

Pontalmyra Sabba Stefanescu, 1896

Sabba Stefanescu, 1896. Mém. Soc. Géol. France 15: ??.

Crassadacna Ebersin, 1962

Ebersin, 1962. unknown publication: ??.

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Didacna — Lamy (1946), Zhadin (1965), Slugina (2006), Kantor et al. (2010), Huber (2010), WoRMS (2011), Vinarski & Kantor (2016), Wesselingh et al. (2019)
Didacna (s.s.) — Keen (1969)

NSF icon

Site developed and maintained by Dan Graf & Kevin Cummings.
Funded by The National Science Foundation.

"Making the world a better place, one mollusk at a time."
MUSSEL icon