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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Gonideini

genus Gonidea Conrad, 1857: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (2 total species)

Synonymy

Gonidea Conrad, 1857

Conrad, 1857. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 9: 165.
Type species: Anodonta randalli Trask, 1854 (sub. desig. by of Authors, 0) = Gonidea angulata

Limnobasilissa Hannibal, 1912

Hannibal, 1912. Proc. Malac. Soc. London 10(2): 127.
Type species: Margaritana subangulata Cooper, 1894 (orig. desig.) = Gonidea angulata

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Gonidea — Simpson (1900), Hannibal (1912), Simpson (1914), Ortmann (1916), Frierson (1927), ... Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Gonidea (Limnobasilissa) — Hannibal (1912)

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