Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Lanceolariini

genus Lanceolaria Conrad, 1853: synonymy

15 Recent freshwater species (17 total species)

Synonymy

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

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

Arconalia Grasset, 1884

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

Cylindrus Modell, 1964

‘Simpson’ Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 121.
(error 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

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)
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 (sec. Cylindrica) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Nodularia — Simpson (1900)
Unio (Nodularia) — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Unio (Lanceolaria) — Martens (1905)
Unio — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Lanceolaria — Haas (1911), Haas (1924), Zhadin (1938), Kira (1954), Kira (1959), ... Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Xiang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Nodularia (Lanceolaria) — Preston (1912)
Lanceolaria (s.s.) — Thiele (1934)
Lanceolaria (sec. Pericylindrica) — Thiele (1934)
Lanceolaria (Pericylindrica) — Zatravkin (1983), Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987)