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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina

genus Pyganodon Crosse & Fischer, 1894: synonymy

6 Recent freshwater species (6 total species)

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Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Glabaris (s.s.) — Simpson (1900)
Anodonta — Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910), ... Rosenberg et al. (1997), Contreras-Arquieta (2000), ITIS (2012), Kongim et al. (2015), Soliman et al. (2016)
Anodonta (Patularia) — Martens (1900)
Unio (Anodonta) — Call (1900)
Anodontites (s.s.) — Simpson (1914)
Anodonta (s.s.) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1930), Haas (1969)
Anodonta (Pyganodon) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1970), Heard (1975), Kat (1983), R.I. Johnson (1999)
Anodonta (Anodontoides) — Frierson (1927)
Anodonta (Lastena) — Frierson (1927)
Pyganodon — Modell (1945), Hoeh (1990), Cummings & Mayer (1992), Williams et al. (1993), Vidrine (1993), ... Chen et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Cummings et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)
Anodontoides — Haas (1969)
Toxolasma — Lee (2006)
P. — Sheng et al. (2014), Marshall et al. (2018)