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genus Potomida Swainson, 1840: synonymy

3 Recent freshwater species (16 total species)

Synonymy

Potomida Swainson, 1840

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Mysca Turton, 1822; renamed Potamida Agassiz, 1846)
Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 265, 268, 272-275, 280-281, 285, 289-290, 379.
Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 275 [as ‘Potomidea’].
Type species: Mysca (Potomida) corrugata Swainson, 1840 (orig. desig.) = Potomida littoralis

Potamida Agassiz, 1846

(new name for Potomida Swainson, 1840; homonym of Brongniart, 1810 [Gastro.])
Agassiz, 1846. Nomencl. Zool. Index Univ.: 306.
Herrmannsen, 1847. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 2: 329.
Thiele, 1934. Handb. Syst. Weichtierk. 3: 816 [1245].
Type species: Mysca (Potomida) corrugata Swainson, 1840 = Potomida littoralis

Rhomboidiana Locard, 1889

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
‘Bourguignat MS’ Locard, 1889. Contr. Faune Malacol. Franc. 13: 18 [124].
Type species: Unio rhomboideus Moquin-Tandon, 1855 (orig. desig.) = Potomida littoralis

Simonisiana Locard, 1889

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
‘Bourguignat MS’ Locard, 1889. Contr. Faune Malacol. Franc. 13: 20 [126].
Type species: Unio simonis Tristram, 1865 (orig. desig.) = Potomida semirugata

Rytia Stefanescu, 1896

(renamed Sabbaia Cossmann, 1897; homonym of Hübner, 1823 [Lepidopt.])
Stefanescu, 1896. Mém. Soc. Géol. France 15: 41.
Type species: Unio brandzae Stefanescu, 1896 (original designation) = Potomida brandzae

Sabbaia Cossmann, 1897

(new name for Rytia Stefanescu, 1896)
Cossmann, 1897. Rev. Crit. Paléozool. 1: 156.
Type species: Unio brandzae Stefanescu, 1896 = Potomida brandzae

Rhombunio Germain, 1911

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Leguminaia Conrad, 1865)
Germain, 1911. Bull. Mus. Nation. Hist. Natur. 17: 67.
Type species: Unio rothi Bourguignat, 1863 (sub. desig. by Haas, 1969: 271) = Potomida semirugata

Migranaja Hannibal, 1912

Hannibal, 1912. Proc. Malac. Soc. London 10(2): 124.
Type species: Unio littoralis Cuvier, 1798 (orig. desig.) = Potomida littoralis

Wenziella Modell, 1959

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Modell, 1959. Geol. Jhrb. 75: 235.
Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 120.
Type species: Unio vukotinovici Hörnes, 1864 = Potomida vukotinovici

Migranaia Haas, 1969

(error for Migranaja Hannibal, 1912)
‘Hannibal’ of Authors.
Haas, 1969. Das Tierreich 88: 271.
Haas, 1969. Treatise on Invert. Paleo Part N (1): N441.
Bank et al., 2001. Heldia 4(1/2): 113.
Type species: Unio littoralis Cuvier, 1798 = Potomida littoralis

Rhombeidiana Cox et al., 1969

(error for Rhomboidiana Locard, 1889)
‘Locard’ of Authors.
Cox et al., 1969. Treatise on Invert. Paleo Part N (2): N862.
Millard, 2001. Class. Moll. (3): 1077.
Type species: Unio rhomboideus Moquin-Tandon, 1855 = Potomida littoralis

Uralinaia Starobogatov, 1970

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Cuneopsidea Wenz, 1928)
Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 66, 284.
Type species: Unio janschini Bogachev, 1961 (orig. desig.) = Potomida janschini

Wensiella Gozhik, 2006

(error for Wenziella Modell, 1959)
‘Modell’ Gozhik, 2006. Nat. Akad Nauk Ukrainy Inst. Geol.: 166.
Type species: Unio vukotinovici Hörnes, 1864 = Potomida vukotinovici

Potomidea Swainson, 1840

(error for Potomida Swainson, 1840)
Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 275.
Type species: Mysca (Potomida) corrugata Swainson, 1840 = Potomida littoralis

Rhomboideana Fagot, 1892

(error for Rhomboidiana Locard, 1889)
Fagot, 1892. Bull. Soc. Ramond 27: 37.
Caziot, 1907. Bull. Soc. Sci. Hist. Nat. Yonne 60: 276.
Type species: Unio rhomboideus Moquin-Tandon, 1855 = Potomida littoralis

Rhamboideana Fagot, 1893

(error for Rhomboidiana Locard, 1889)
Fagot, 1893. Bull. Soc. Ramond 28: 258.
Type species: Unio rhomboideus Moquin-Tandon, 1855 = Potomida littoralis

Subreniformiana Fagot, 1893

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Fagot, 1893. Bull. Soc. Ramond 28: 258. [nomen nudum]

Misgranaja Daget, 1998

(error for Migranaja Hannibal, 1912)
‘Hannibal’ Daget, 1998. Cat. Bivalves Africains: 84.
Type species: Unio littoralis Cuvier, 1798 = Potomida littoralis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Unio (sec. Lymnium) — Simpson (1900)
Parreysia (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Preston (1915)
Unio — Rochebrune (1903), Kobelt (1903), Pallary (1921), Daget (1998)
Unio (Rhomboïdiana) — Germain (1904)
Unio (Groupe Rhomboïdeana) — Caziot (1907)
Leguminaia (Rhombunio) — Germain (1911)
Migranaja — Hannibal (1912)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) (Group U. pictorum) — Simpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) (Group U. littoralis) — Simpson (1914)
Parreysia (s.s.) (Group of P. corrugata) — Simpson (1914)
Unio (Rhombunio) — Prashad (1919)
Rhombunio — Haas (1924)
Psilunio — Modell (1931), Germain (1931), Thiele (1934), Zhadin (1938), Haas (1940), ... Daget (1998), Giribet & Wheeler (2002), Giribet & Distel (2003), Campbell et al. (2005), Jeffrey et al. (2016)
Unio (Psilunio) — Pallary (1939)
Unio (Limnium) [sic] — Pallary (1939)
Potomida — Ellis (1946), Morrison (1966), Haas (1969), Schütt (1983), Schütt (1988), ... Wu et al. (2026), Prie et al. (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Nahok et al. (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Caelatura [sic] — Haas (1969)
Potomida (s.s.) — Haas (1969), Gozhik (2006)
Cuneopsidea (Uralinaia) — Starobogatov (1970)
Potamida [sic] — Bába (2000)
Potomida (Wensiella) [sic] — Gozhik (2006)
Rytia — Gozhik (2006)