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genus Parreysia Conrad, 1853: synonymy

8 Recent freshwater species (8 total species)

Synonymy

Niäa Lea, 1836

(error for Naia Swainson, 1840)
‘Swainson’ of Authors.
Lea, 1836. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 31. [nomen nudum]
Lea, 1852. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 33. [nomen nudum]
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 492.
Type species: Mya corrugata Müller, 1774 = Parreysia corrugata

Parreyssia Kobelt, 1910

(error for Parreysia Conrad, 1853)
‘Conrad’ of Authors.
Kobelt, 1910. Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 32: 85.
Prashad, 1918. Rec. Ind. Mus. 15: 145.
Prashad, 1919. Rec. Ind. Mus. 16: 292.
Type species: Unio multidentatus Philippi, 1847 = Parreysia corrugata

Naia Swainson, 1840

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Castalia Lamarck, 1819)
Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 284, 379 [as ‘Naïa’].
Type species: Mya corrugata Müller, 1774 (sub. desig. by Herrmannsen, 1847: 89) = Parreysia corrugata

Naza Agassiz, 1845

(error for Naia Swainson, 1840)
Agassiz, 1845. Nom. Syst. Gen. Moll.: 58.
Type species: Mya corrugata Müller, 1774 = Parreysia corrugata

Parreysia Conrad, 1853

Conrad, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 267.
Type species: Unio multidentatus Philippi, 1847 (orig. desig.) = Parreysia corrugata

Niaea Mørch, 1853

(error for Naia Swainson, 1840)
‘Sws. 1837’ Mørch, 1853. Cat. Conch. Yoldi 2: 47 [as ‘Niæa’].
Paetel, 1890. Cat. Conch.-Samml. 3: 143.
Type species: Mya corrugata Müller, 1774 = Parreysia corrugata

Parrysia Coates, 1925

(error for Parreysia Conrad, 1853)
Coates, 1925. Trans. Proc. Perthshire Soc. Nat. Sci. 8: 83.
Type species: Unio multidentatus Philippi, 1847 = Parreysia corrugata

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Parreysia (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Preston (1915), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Subba Rao (1989), Graf & Cummings (2007), Ramakrishna & Dey (2007)
Parreysia — Ortmann (1910), Ortmann (1912), Prashad (1922), Modell (1942), Haas (1969), ... Bolotov et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Chen et al. (2026)
Parreyssia [sic] — Prashad (1919)
Parreysia (Radiatula) — Burdi et al. (2009)
Leoparreysia — Bolotov et al. (2017), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Parreysia (keralaensis-group) — Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2024)
Parreysia (corrugata-group) — Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2024)
Parreysia (rajahensis-group) — Bolotov et al. (2022)