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genus Lamprotula Simpson, 1900: synonymy

17 Recent freshwater species (26 total species)

Synonymy

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

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

Iolamprotula Martinson, 1964

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

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)

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) — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Martens (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Lamprotula — Haas (1920), Thiele (1934), Ueji (1934), Haas (1969), Kil (1976), ... Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Lamprotula (s.s.) — Haas (1969)
Lamprotula (Parunio) — Haas (1969), Yu et al. (2001)
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)