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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini

genus Cambarunio Watters, 2018: synonymy
     7 Recent freshwater species (7 total species)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) — Simpson (1900)
Unio (s.s.) — Call (1900)
Lampsilis — Ihering (1901), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910)
Eurynia (Micromya) — Ortmann (1912), Ortmann (1915), Utterback (1916)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) — Simpson (1914)
Unio — de Gregorio (1914)
Eurynia — Ortmann (1918)
Micromya — Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925)
Lampsilis (Ligumia) — Frierson (1927)
Ligumia (Micromya) — F.C. Baker (1928)
Ligumia — Haas (1969)
Villosa — Morrison (1969), Burch (1975), Gordon et al. (1979), Mathiak (1979), R.I. Johnson (1980), ... Bolotov et al. (2020), Inoue et al. (2020), Klymus et al. (2020), Gasparini et al. (2020), Jeratthitikul et al. (2022)
Cambarunio — Watters (2018), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), Burlakova et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Leaunio — Watters (2018)