MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
by Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
by Family
Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
by Geography
Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Popenaiadini
genus Popenaias Frierson, 1927: synonymy
4 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)
Synonymy
Popenaias Frierson, 1927
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Elliptio Rafinesque, 1819)
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 38.
Type species: Unio popeii Lea, 1857 (orig. desig.) = Popenaias popeii
Perpenaias Salisbury, 1948
(error for Popenaias Frierson, 1927)
Salisbury, 1948. Zool. Rec. 82: 81.
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)
Unio (Simonaias) — Martens (1900)
Unio (sec. Elliptio) — Simpson (1900)
Unio (Nephronaias) — Martens (1900)
Lampsilis — Pilsbry (1910)
Elliptio — Ortmann (1912)
Lampsilis (Proptera) (Group of L. metallica) — Simpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Elliptio) (Group of U. popeii) — Simpson (1914)
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), ... Chen et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Martínez et al. (2026), Barraza et al. (2026)
