MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
by Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
by Family
Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
by Geography
Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini
genus Pseudoon Simpson, 1900: synonymy
1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)
Synonymy
Pseudoon Simpson, 1900
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Obovaria Rafinesque, 1819)
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 601 [as ‘Pseudoön’].
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 298.
Type species: Unio ellipsis Lea, 1828 (original designation) = Pseudoon olivarium
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Pseudoon, since 1900.
Obovaria (Pseudoon) — Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1912), Frierson (1927), F.C. Baker (1928), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Campbell & Lydeard (2012), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Unio (s.s.) — Call (1900)
Obovaria — Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910), Vanatta (1915), Ortmann & Walker (1922), Murray & Leonard (1962), ... Porto-Hannes et al. (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Obovaria (Pseudoön) — Simpson (1914), Utterback (1916), Ortmann (1925)
Unio — de Gregorio (1914)
Obovaria (s.s.) — Ortmann (1924)
Pseudoon — Campbell & Lydeard (2012), Inoue et al. (2026)
