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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Coelaturini

genus Prisodontopsis Tomlin, 1928: synonymy

2 Recent freshwater species (2 total species)

Synonymy

Pseudavicula Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 860.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 1190.
(homonym of Hudleston, 1890; renamed Prisodontopsis Tomlin, 1928)
Type species: Unio (Metaptera) johnstoni E.A. Smith, 1893 (orig. desig.) = Prisodontopsis aviculaeformis

Prisodontopsis Tomlin, 1928

Tomlin, 1928. Nautilus 42: 66.
(new name for Pseudavicula Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Unio (Metaptera) johnstoni E.A. Smith, 1893 = Prisodontopsis aviculaeformis

Mweruella Haas, 1936

Haas, 1936. Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 431: 63 [as ‘Mweruëlla’].
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Coelatura Conrad, 1853)
Type species: Unio mweruensis E.A. Smith, 1908 (orig. desig.) = Prisodontopsis mweruensis

Kistinaia Haas, 1936

Haas, 1936. Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 431: 64.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Coelatura Conrad, 1853)
Type species: Caelatura (Kistinaia) schoutedeni Haas, 1936 (orig. desig.) = Prisodontopsis mweruensis

Miocruella Salisbury, 1948

Salisbury, 1948. Zool. Rec. 82: 81.
(error for Mweruella Haas, 1936)
Type species: Unio mweruensis E.A. Smith, 1908 = Prisodontopsis mweruensis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Pseudavicula — Simpson (1900), Kobelt (1910), Simpson (1914), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Modell (1942)
Unio — E.A. Smith (1908)
Parreysia — Simpson (1914), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Prisodontopsis — Tomlin (1928), Thiele (1934), Pain & Woodward (1968), Mandahl-Barth (1968), Haas (1969), ... Graf et al. (2014), Pfeiffer et al. (2018), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Caelatura [sic] (Mweruella) — Haas (1936), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Caelatura [sic] (Kistinaia) — Haas (1936), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Mweruella — Pain & Woodward (1968), Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2007), IUCN (2010), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020)
Caelatura [sic] — Mandahl-Barth (1968), Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Mweruella (s.s.) — Starobogatov (1970)
Coelatura — Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), Huang et al. (2019)

 
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