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genus Popenaias Frierson, 1927: synonymy

4 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)

Synonymy

Popenaias Frierson, 1927

Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 38.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Elliptio Rafinesque, 1819)
Type species: Unio popeii Lea, 1857 (orig. desig.) = Popenaias popeii

Perpenaias Salisbury, 1948

Salisbury, 1948. Zool. Rec. 82: 81.
(error for Popenaias Frierson, 1927)
Type species: Unio popeii Lea, 1857 = Popenaias popeii

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Lampsilis (Proptera) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Simonaias) — Martens (1900)
Unio (sec. Elliptio) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Nephronaias) — Martens (1900)
Lampsilis — Pilsbry (1910), Simpson (1914)
Elliptio — Ortmann (1912)
Elliptio (Popenaias) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1929)
Lampsilis (Friersonia) — Frierson (1927)
Elliptio (sec. Popenaias) — Thiele (1934)
Nephronaias (Popenaias) — Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Friersonia — Haas (1969)
Popenaias — Heard & Guckert (1970), Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Howells et al. (1996), ... Dai et al. (2025), Freeman et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)