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genus Nodularia Conrad, 1853: synonymy

14 Recent freshwater species (15 total species)

Synonymy

Nodularia Conrad, 1853

(renamed Nodularidia Cockerell, 1901)
Conrad, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 267.
Type species: Unio douglasiae Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833 (orig. desig.) = Nodularia douglasiae

Nodularidia Cockerell, 1901

(new name for Nodularia Conrad, 1853)
Cockerell, 1901. Science 13: 984.
Type species: Unio douglasiae Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833 = Nodularia douglasiae

Oxynaia Haas, 1911

Haas, 1911. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 43): pls. 14-16.
Haas, 1913. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 47): 152.
Haas, 1913. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 45: 34.
Type species: Unio jourdyi Morlet, 1886 (orig. desig.) = Nodularia douglasiae

Amurunio Zatravkin & Bogatov, 1987

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Nodularia Conrad, 1853)
Zatravkin & Bogatov, 1987. Biv. Far East: 60.
Type species: Nodularia lebedevi Zatravkin & Starobogatov, 1984 (orig. desig.) = Nodularia douglasiae

Magadaninaia Martynov & Chernyshev, 1992

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Nodularia Conrad, 1853)
Martynov & Chernyshev, 1992. Zool. Zhur. 71: 19.
Type species: Nodularia (Magadaninaia) extremalis Martynov & Chernyshev, 1992 (orig. desig.) = Nodularia douglasiae

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Nodularia (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Haas (1911), Haas (1911), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Haas (1924), Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987), Korniushin (1998), Starobogatov et al. (2004), Bogatov (2012)
Unio (Nodularia) — Martens (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908), Zhadin (1938)
Unio — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Simpson (1914), de Gregorio (1914), Haas (1940), ... Zhou et al. (2017), Araujo et al. (2018), Wang et al. (2018), Aunins et al. (2018), Wang et al. (2018)
Nodularia — Haas (1910), Simpson (1914), Haas (1920), Moskvicheva (1973), Dang et al. (1980), ... Chen et al. (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Nodularia (sec. Scabies) — Haas (1911)
Oxynaia — Haas (1913), Haas (1924), Prashad (1932), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), ... Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), IUCN (2012), Zieritz et al. (2018), Do et al. (2018)
Nodularia (Scabies) — Haas (1924)
Lymnium — Kira (1954)
Scabies — Haas (1969), Brandt (1974), Hu (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), He & Zhuang (2013), WoRMS (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Middendorffinaia (s.s.) — Moskvicheva & Starobogatov (1973), Zatravkin (1983), Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987), Starobogatov et al. (2004), Bogatov (2012), Vinarski & Kantor (2016), Bogatov & Prozorova (2017)
Middendorffinaia (Sujfununio) — Moskvicheva & Starobogatov (1973)
Nodularia (Amurunio) — Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987), Korniushin (1998), Starobogatov et al. (2004), Klishko et al. (2018)
Nodularia (Magadaninaia) — Martynov & Chernyshev (1992), Starobogatov et al. (2004)
Middendorffinaia — Kantor & Sysoev (2005), Kantor et al. (2010), Klishko et al. (2019), Bogatov (2022)
Pseudobaphia — Prozorova et al. (2005)
Acuticosta — He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020)
Nodularidia — He & Zhuang (2013)
Ptychorhynchus — He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021)