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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Gibbosulinae

genus Gibbosula Simpson, 1900: synonymy

5 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)

Synonymy

Gibbosula Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 804.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 941.
Type species: Mya crassa Wood, 1815 (original designation) = Gibbosula crassa

Margaritanopsis Haas, 1910

Haas, 1910. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 42): pl. 12.
Haas, 1912. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 46): 121.
Haas, 1913. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 45: 33.
Type species: Unio laosensis Lea, 1863 (monotypy) = Gibbosula laosensis

Odhnerella Modell, 1964

Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 111.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Lamprotula Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Unio rochechouartii Heude, 1875 (orig. desig.) = Gibbosula rochechouartii

Margaritinopsis D.G. Smith, 2001

D.G. Smith, 2001. [in] Bauer & Wächtler, Ecol. Evol. Unionoida 145: 42.
(error for Margaritanopsis Haas, 1910)
Type species: Unio laosensis Lea, 1863 = Gibbosula laosensis

Gipposula Prozorova et al., 2005

‘Simpson’ Prozorova et al., 2005. Byull. Dal'nev. Malak.Obshch. 9: 52.
(error for Gibbosula Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Mya crassa Wood, 1815 = Gibbosula crassa

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Margaritana — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Gibbosula — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Frierson (1928), Dang et al. (1980), He & Zhuang (2013), ... Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)
Unio (Quadrula) — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Margaritanopsis — Haas (1912), Prashad (1922), Haas (1924), Brandt (1974), D.G. Smith (2001), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) — Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Subba Rao (1989), Bolotov et al. (2016)
Lamprotula — Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005), Hu (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), ... IUCN (2012), Xiong et al. (2012), Pfeiffer & Graf (2013), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018)
Margaritifera — Ziuganov et al. (1994), Graf & Cummings (2007), Araujo et al. (2009), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), ... Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2018), Bespalaya et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Sano et al. (2020)
Lamprotula (Odhnerella) — Yu et al. (2001)
Gipposula [sic] — Prozorova et al. (2005)

 
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