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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini

genus Pseudobaphia Simpson, 1900: synonymy

3 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)

Synonymy

Pseudobaphia Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 849.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 1138.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Parreysia Conrad, 1853)
Type species: Unio biesianus Heude, 1877 (orig. desig.) = Pseudobaphia biesiana

Chrysopseudodon Haas, 1920

Haas, 1920. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 53): 317.
Haas, 1924. Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 38: 129.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Pseudodon Gould, 1844)
Type species: Psudodon [sic] aureus Heude, 1885 (orig. desig.) = Pseudobaphia aurea

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Parreysia (Pseudobaphia)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Pseudodon (s.s.)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
AnodontaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1969)
PseudobaphiaHaas (1912), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007), ... Do et al. (2018), Bogan & Do (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), Liu et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2023)
Pseudodon (Chrysopseudodon)Haas (1920), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Pseudodon (sec. Chrysopseudodon)Thiele (1934)
PseudodonBogan (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)

 
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