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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini

genus Cuneopsis Simpson, 1900: synonymy

7 Recent freshwater species (10 total species)

Synonymy

Cuneopsis Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 804.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 943.
Type species: Unio celtiformis Heude, 1874 (orig. desig.) = Cuneopsis celtiformis

Procuneopsis Starobogatov, 1970

Starobogatov in Popova & Starobogatov, 1970. Moll. Kyzylgirsk. Svity. Gornogo: 61.
Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 66, 285.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Cuneopsis Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Unio heudei Heude, 1874 (orig. desig.) = Cuneopsis heudei

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Cuneopsis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1920), Haas (1924), Thiele (1934), ... Dai et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)
Unio — Simpson (1914), He & Zhuang (2013)
Cuneopsis (Procuneopsis) — Starobogatov (1970), Dang et al. (1980)

 
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