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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini
genus Dromus Simpson, 1900: synonymy
1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)
Synonymy
Dromus Simpson, 1900
(renamed Conchodromus Haas, 1930; homonym of Selby, 1840 [Aves]; renamed Dromas Lindahl, 1906)
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 614.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 341.
Type species: Unio dromas Lea, 1834 (orig. desig.) = Dromus dromas
Dromas Lindahl, 1906
(new name for Dromus Simpson, 1900; homonym of Paykull, 1805 [Aves])
Lindahl, 1906. J. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. 20: 239.
Type species: Unio dromas Lea, 1834 = Dromus dromas
Conchodromus Haas, 1930
(new name for Dromus Simpson, 1900)
Haas, 1930. Senckenbergiana 12(6): 317.
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), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Conchodromus — Haas (1930), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
