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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini

genus Sagittunio Watters, 2018: synonymy

4 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)

Synonymy

Sagittunio Watters, 2018

Watters, 2018. Visaya, Suppl. (10): 54.
Type species: Unio nasutus Say, 1817 (orig. desig.) = Sagittunio nasutus

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia)Simpson (1900)
Unio (sec. Elliptio)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (s.s.)Call (1900)
LampsilisOrtmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910)
Eurynia (s.s.)Ortmann (1912), Ortmann (1916), Utterback (1916)
Lampsilis (Eurynia)Simpson (1914)
Uniode Gregorio (1914), Henderson (1935)
MicromyaOrtmann (1924)
Lampsilis (Ligumia)Frierson (1927), Haas (1930)
LigumiaF.C. Baker (1928), Murray & Leonard (1962), Haas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1970), Burch (1975), ... Jones (2015), Scott et al. (2016), Williams et al. (2017), Gasparini et al. (2020), Hata et al. (2022)
VillosaR.I. Johnson (1970), Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), Bogan (2002), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Williams et al. (2017)
SagittunioWatters (2018), Burlakova et al. (2019), Scott et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
L.Marshall et al. (2018)

 
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