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Margaritiferidae

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Central America

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Data last updated
Mon 1 Dec 2025

Bivalvia | Unionoida | 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. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), FMCS (2025)
Gonidea (Limnobasilissa) — Hannibal (1912)

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