Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae
0 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)
Liu, 1981. Bull. Chengdu. Inst. Geol. Min. Res. 2(1): 121.
Type species: Shifangella margaritiferiformis Liu & Luo in Liu, 1981 (orig. desig.) = Shifangella margartiferiformis
Ma, 1984. unknown publication: 606.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Margaritifera Schumacher, 1815)
Type species: Margaritifera (Palaeomargaritifera) guangyuanensis Ma, 1984 (orig. desig.) = Shifangella guangyuanensis
Guo, 1988. Yunnan Geol. 7: 121.
Type species: Dianoconcha alata Guo, 1988 (orig. desig.) = Shifangella alata
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Shifangella, since 1900.
Shifangella — Fang et al. (2009), Jeratthitikul et al. (2022)
Margaritifera (Palaeomargaritifera) — Fang et al. (2009)
Dianoconcha — Fang et al. (2009), Araujo et al. (2016)
Margaritifera — Araujo et al. (2016)