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genus Dromus Simpson, 1900: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Dromus Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 614.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 341.
(homonym of Selby, 1840 [Aves]; renamed Dromas Lindahl, 1906; renamed Conchodromus Haas, 1930)
Type species: Unio dromas Lea, 1834 (orig. desig.) = Dromus dromas

Dromas Lindahl, 1906

Lindahl, 1906. J. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. 20: 239.
(homonym of Paykull, 1805 [Aves]; new name for Dromus Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Unio dromas Lea, 1834 = Dromus dromas

Conchodromus Haas, 1930

Haas, 1930. Senckenbergiana 12(6): 317.
(new name for Dromus Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Unio dromas Lea, 1834 = Dromus dromas

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Dromus — Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1912), Simpson (1914), Ortmann (1918), Ortmann (1924), ... Klymus et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Conchodromus — Haas (1930), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)