Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini
3 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)
Perkins et al., 2017. Conserv. Genet. 18: 755.
Type species: Unio collinus Conrad, 1837 (orig. desig.) = Parvaspina collina
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Parvaspina, since 1900.
Unio (sec. Elliptio) — Simpson (1900)
Alasmidonta (Pressodonta) — Simpson (1900)
Unio (sec. Elliptio) (Group of U. fisherianus) — Simpson (1914)
Elliptio — Ortmann (1914), Davis & Fuller (1981), Davis et al. (1981), Kat (1983), Davis (1984), ... FMCS (2021), Bieler (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), MolluscaBase (2024), FMCS (2025)
Unio — de Gregorio (1914)
Alasmidonta (Pressodonta) (Group of A. collina) — Simpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Elliptio) (Group of U. complanatus) — Simpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Elliptio) (Group of U. buckleyi) — Simpson (1914)
Elliptio (s.s.) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1970), Burch (1975)
Canthyria — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Pleurobema (Lexingtonia) — R.I. Johnson (1970)
Pleurobema — Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), Turgeon et al. (1998), ... ITIS (2012), Burlakova et al. (2012), Haag (2012), Jones (2015), Pfeiffer et al. (2016)
Fusconaia — Johnson & Clarke (1983)
Elliptio (Canthyria) — Johnson & Clarke (1983)
Parvaspina — Perkins et al. (2017), Williams et al. (2017), Inoue et al. (2018), Inoue et al. (2020), Smith et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)