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genus Brachyanodon Crosse & Fischer, 1894: synonymy

5 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)

Synonymy

Brachyanodon Fischer & Crosse, 1894

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Anodonta Lamarck, 1799)
Fischer & Crosse, 1894. Miss. Sci. Mexique, Rech. Zool. 2(15): 517.
Type species: Anodonta chapalensis Crosse & Fischer, 1893 (sub. desig. by Thiele, 1934: 832) = Brachyanodon impura

Arnoldina Hannibal, 1912

Hannibal, 1912. Proc. Malac. Soc. London 10(2): 128.
Type species: Anodonta dejecta Lewis, 1875 (orig. desig.) = Brachyanodon californiensis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Glabaris (s.s.) — Simpson (1900)
Anodonta — Simpson (1900), Hannibal (1912), Simpson (1914), Ortmann (1914), Haas (1929), ... Perkins et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Cummings et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2026)
Anodonta (s.s.) — Martens (1900), Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), Heard (1975)
Arnoldina — Hannibal (1912)
Anodontites (s.s.) — Simpson (1914)
Anodonta (Pyganodon) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Anodonta (Arnoldina) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Anodonta (Brachyanodon) — Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Pyganodon — Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008), Watters et al. (2009)
Beringiana — Bogatov & Starobogatov (2001)
Brachyanodon — Cummings et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)