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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Quadrulini | Quadrulina

genus Cyclonaias Pilsbry in Ortmann & Walker, 1922: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Rotundaria Agassiz, 1852

‘Rafinesque’ of Authors.
Agassiz, 1852. Arch. Naturg. 18(1): 48.
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 765.
Ortmann, 1909. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 5: 201.
Ortmann, 1910. Nautilus 23(11): 140.
Ortmann, 1912. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 8: 257.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 811.
Utterback, 1915. Amer. Midl. Nat. 4(4): 149.
Ortmann, 1918. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 57(6): 543.
Haas, 1929. Senckenbergiana 11: 333.
Haas, 1930. Senckenbergiana 12(6): 319.
(reference to Rotundaria Rafinesque, 1820)
Type species: Obliquaria (Rotundaria) tuberculata Rafinesque, 1820 = Cyclonaias tuberculata

Cyclonaias Ortmann & Walker, 1922

Pilsbry in Ortmann & Walker, 1922. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (112): 18.
Type species: Obliquaria (Rotundaria) tuberculata Rafinesque, 1820 (orig. desig.) = Cyclonaias tuberculata

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Quadrula (Rotundaria)Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910), Simpson (1914)
Unio (s.s.)Call (1900)
QuadrulaOrtmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Vanatta (1915)
RotundariaOrtmann (1910), Ortmann (1912), Utterback (1915), Utterback (1915), Ortmann (1918), Thiele (1934), Campbell & Lydeard (2012), Campbell & Lydeard (2012)
Uniode Gregorio (1914)
CyclonaiasOrtmann & Walker (1922), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), F.C. Baker (1928), Haas (1969), ... Neemuchwala et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023), Keogh et al. (2024), FMCS (2025)
Quadrula (Cyclonaias)Frierson (1927), Haas (1930)

 
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