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genus Prolasmidonta Ortmann, 1914: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Prolasmidonta Ortmann, 1914

Ortmann, 1914. Nautilus 28(4): 44.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Alasmidonta Say, 1818)
Type species: Unio heterodon Lea, 1829 (orig. desig.) = Prolasmidonta heterodon

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Alasmidonta (Pressodonta) — Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1909), Simpson (1914), Clarke (1981), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Alasmidonta — Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910), Ortmann (1912), Clarke (1970), R.I. Johnson (1980), ... Wu et al. (2021), Hata et al. (2022), Whelan et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), Perkins et al. (2025)
Alasmidonta (Prolasmidonta) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1970)
Alasmodonta (sec. Prolasmidonta) — Thiele (1934)
Alasmidonta (s.s.) — Burch (1975)
Prolasmidonta — Wu et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024), FMCS (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)