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

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Bivalvia | Sphaerioida | Sphaerioidea | Sphaeriidae | Sphaeriinae

genus Hindupisidium Vinarksi & Bespalaya in Bespalaya et al., 2023: synonymy
     3 Recent valid species (3 total species)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Pisidium — Annandale & Prashad (1921), Srinivasa Rao (1928), Schultheiß et al. (2008), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), Clewing et al. (2013), Bolotov et al. (2015), Bößneck et al. (2016), Clewing et al. (2020), Saito et al. (2022), Clewing et al. (2022)
Pisidium (Neopisidium) — van Benthem Jutting (1953), van Benthem Jutting (1955)
Pisidium (Afropisidium) — Kuiper (1962), Brandt (1974), Kuiper (1983), Subba Rao (1989), Korniushin & Glaubrecht (2002), Nesemann et al. (2003), Nesemann et al. (2007), Bespalaya et al. (2017)
Afropisidium — Dang et al. (1980), Sahidin et al. (2021)
Hindupisidium — Bespalaya et al. (2023)