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 | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina
genus Pegias Simpson, 1900: synonymy
1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)
Synonymy
Pegias Simpson, 1900
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 660.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 472.
Type species: Margaritana fabula Lea, 1838 (orig. desig.) = Pegias fabula
Pagias Ortmann, 1921
(error for Pegias Simpson, 1900)
Ortmann, 1921. Nautilus 34: 88.
Type species: Margaritana fabula Lea, 1838 = Pegias fabula
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Pegias, since 1900.
Pegias — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Ortmann (1918), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), ... Klymus et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
Alasmidonta (Pegias) — Ortmann (1914), Haas (1969), Burch (1975)
Unio — de Gregorio (1914)
Alasmodonta (sec. Pegias) — Thiele (1934)
