Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Lamprotulini

genus Lamprotula Simpson, 1900: synonymy

17 Recent freshwater species (26 total species)

Synonymy

Lamprotula Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 796.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 913.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Quadrula Rafinesque, 1820)
Type species: Chama plumbea Dillwyn, 1817 (orig. desig.) = Lamprotula plumbea

Parunio Ping, 1931

Ping, 1931. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 10: 236.
Type species: Parunio crassus Ping, 1931 (original designation) = Lamprotula crassa

Lamprotura Uwadi, 1934

Uwadi, 1934. Jour. Geol. Soc. Tokyo 41: explanation to pl. 7.
(error for Lamprotula Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Chama plumbea Dillwyn, 1817 = Lamprotula plumbea

Richthofenia Modell, 1964

Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 110.
(homonym of Kayser, 1883 (Brachiopoda); intro'd as sub-gen. of Lamprotula Simpson, 1900; renamed Sinolamprotula Gu, 1976)
Type species: Unio leaii Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833 (orig. desig.) = Lamprotula leaii

Cuneolamprotula Gu, 1976

Gu & Huang in Gu, 1976. Lamell. Foss. China: 319.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Lamprotula Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Unio bazini Heude, 1877 = Lamprotula bazini

Sinolamprotula Gu, 1976

Gu & Huang in Gu, 1976. Lamell. Foss. China: 324.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Lamprotula Simpson, 1900; new name for Richthofenia Modell, 1964)

Richtofenia Vokes, 1980

‘Modell’ of Authors.
Vokes, 1980. Genera of the Bivalvia: 78.
Vaught, 1989. Class. Livinh Moll.: 121.
Millard, 2001. Class. Moll. (3): 1056.
(error for Richthofenia Modell, 1964)
Type species: Unio leaii Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833 = Lamprotula leaii

Iolamprotula Martinson, 1964

Martinson, 1964. Colloque du Jurrassique 1962: 160.
(error for Eolamprotula Gu [Ku], 1962)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Quadrula (Lamprotula) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Quadrula) — Martens (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Lamprotula — Haas (1920), Thiele (1934), Ueji (1934), Haas (1969), Kil (1976), ... Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Lamprotula (Parunio) — Haas (1969), Yu et al. (2001)
Lamprotula (s.s.) — Haas (1969)
Lamprotula (Cuneolamprotula) — Yu et al. (2001), Fang et al. (2009)
Pronodularia — Kondo et al. (2007), Bogan (2010), Zieritz et al. (2018)
Lamprotula (Sinolamprotula) — Fang et al. (2009)
Aculamprotula — He & Zhuang (2013), Araujo et al. (2017)
L. — Sheng et al. (2014)
Gibbosula — WoRMS (2017), Zieritz et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021)