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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini

genus Nodularia Conrad, 1853: synonymy

14 Recent freshwater species (15 total species)

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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), ... Hou et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)
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)