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genus Lanceolaria Conrad, 1853: synonymy

15 Recent freshwater species (17 total species)

Synonymy

Lanceolaria Conrad, 1853

Conrad, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 267.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Type species: Unio grayanus Lea, 1834 (orig. desig.) = Lanceolaria grayii

Arconaia Conrad, 1865

Conrad, 1865. Amer. J. Conch. 1: 234.
Type species: Triquetra lanceolata Lea, 1856 (monotypy) = Lanceolaria lanceolata

Cylindrica Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 807.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 958.
(homonym of Clessin, 1882 [Gastro.]; intro'd as sub-gen. of Nodularia Conrad, 1853; renamed Pericylindrica Tomlin, 1930)
Type species: Nodularia cylindrica Simpson, 1900 (orig. desig.) = Lanceolaria cylindrica

Pericylindrica Tomlin, 1930

Tomlin, 1930. Proc. Malac. Soc. London 19: 23.
(new name for Cylindrica Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Nodularia cylindrica Simpson, 1900 = Lanceolaria cylindrica

Prolanceolaria Moskvicheva, 1973

Moskvicheva, 1973. Zool. Zhur. 52(6): 1465.
Type species: Unio grayii Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833 = Lanceolaria grayii

Prolancealaria Vaught, 1989

‘Moskvicheva’ of Authors.
Vaught, 1989. Class. Livinh Moll.: 121.
Millard, 2001. Class. Moll. (3): 1054.
(error for Prolanceolaria Moskvicheva, 1973)
Type species: Unio grayii Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833 = Lanceolaria grayii

Arconalia Grasset, 1884

‘Conrad’ Grasset, 1884. Index Tes., Viv.: 292.
(error for Arconaia Conrad, 1865)
Type species: Triquetra lanceolata Lea, 1856 = Lanceolaria lanceolata

Cylindrus Modell, 1964

‘Simpson’ Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 121.
(error for Cylindrica Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Nodularia cylindrica Simpson, 1900 = Lanceolaria cylindrica

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Nodularia (sec. Lanceolaria) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Nodularia (sec. Cylindrica) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Arconaia — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Haas (1924), Thiele (1934), ... Fukata & Iigo (2020), Wu et al. (2020), Sano et al. (2020), Kim et al. (2021), Xiang et al. (2025)
Nodularia — Simpson (1900)
Unio (Lanceolaria) — Martens (1905)
Unio (Nodularia) — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Unio — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Lanceolaria — Haas (1911), Haas (1924), Zhadin (1938), Kira (1954), Kira (1959), ... Hou et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Nodularia (Lanceolaria) — Preston (1912)
Lanceolaria (s.s.) — Thiele (1934)
Lanceolaria (sec. Pericylindrica) — Thiele (1934)
Lanceolaria (Pericylindrica) — Zatravkin (1983), Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987)