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genus Pleuronaia Frierson, 1927: synonymy

4 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)

Synonymy

Pleuronia Frierson, 1927

Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 10.
(incorrect original spelling of Pleuronaia Frierson, 1927)
Type species: Unio barnesianus Lea, 1838 = Pleuronaia barnesiana

Pleuronaia Frierson, 1927

Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 58.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Quadrula Rafinesque, 1820; correct name for Pleuronia Frierson, 1927)
Type species: Unio barnesianus Lea, 1838 (orig. desig.) = Pleuronaia barnesiana

Pleurconaia Salisbury, 1948

Salisbury, 1948. Zool. Rec. 82: ??.
(error for Pleuronaia Frierson, 1927)
Type species: Unio barnesianus Lea, 1838 = Pleuronaia barnesiana

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Pleurobema (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Frierson (1927)
Unio — de Gregorio (1914), Henderson (1935)
Pleurobema — Ortmann (1914), Vanatta (1915), Ortmann (1918), Haas (1969), Burch (1975), ... Graf & Cummings (2007), Burdick & White (2007), Campbell et al. (2008), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012)
Lexingtonia — Ortmann (1918), Ortmann & Walker (1922), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), Stansbery (1970), ... Graf & Cummings (2007), Manendo et al. (2008), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Klymus et al. (2020)
Fusconaia — Ortmann (1918), Ortmann (1923), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), Burch (1975), ... Graf & Cummings (2007), Burdick & White (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Klymus et al. (2020)
Elliptio — Ortmann (1924)
Quadrula (Pleuronaia) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Pleuronaia — Modell (1957), Williams et al. (2008), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012), Campbell & Lydeard (2012), ... FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025), Schilling et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)