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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Coelaturini

genus Nitia Pallary, 1924: synonymy

5 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)

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Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Nodularia (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Nodularia (sec. Cafferia) — Simpson (1900)
Parreysia (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio — Pallary (1903), E.A. Smith (1906), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Ibrahim et al. (1999)
Unio (s.s.) — Germain (1907)
Nodularia (Lanceolaria) — Pallary (1909)
Nodularia (Coelatura) — Kobelt (1910)
Nodularia (Cafferia) — Kobelt (1910)
Parreyssia [sic] — Kobelt (1910)
Grandidieria — Simpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Cafferia) — Simpson (1914)
Unio (Nitia) — Pallary (1924)
Parreysia — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Bloomer (1932)
Caelatura [sic] — Thiele (1934), Lévèque (1967), Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Nitia — Haas (1936), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), ... Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2024), Zieritz et al. (2024), Galal-Khallaf et al. (2024)
Schleschiella — Modell (1950)
Coelatura (Nitia) — Van Damme (1984)
Caelatura [sic] (Nitia) — Ibrahim et al. (1999)
Coelatura — Scholz & Glaubrecht (2004)
Diplodon — Simone (2006)