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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Lamprotulini

genus Discomya Simpson, 1900: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Discomya Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 802.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 937.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Quadrula Rafinesque, 1820)
Type species: Unio radulosus Drouët & Chaper, 1892 (orig. desig.) = Discomya radulosa

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Quadrula (Discomya) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Discomya — Haas (1913), Haas (1924), Haas (1927), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), ... Zieritz et al. (2018), Zieritz et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Sahidin et al. (2021), Zieritz et al. (2024)

 
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