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 Anodontoides Simpson in F.C. Baker, 1898: synonymy
2 Recent freshwater species (2 total species)
Synonymy
Anodontoides F.C. Baker, 1898
(new name for Anodontopsis F.C. Baker, 1898)
Simpson in F.C. Baker, 1898. Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci. 3(1): 72.
Type species: Anodonta ferussaciana Lea, 1834 = Anodontoides ferussacianus
Anodontopsis F.C. Baker, 1898
(renamed Anodontoides F.C. Baker, 1898; homonym of McCoy, 1851)
Simpson in F.C. Baker, 1898. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 8(5): 76.
Type species: Anodonta ferussaciana Lea, 1834 (original designation) = Anodontoides ferussacianus
Anadontoides Modell, 1964
(error for Anodontoides F.C. Baker, 1898)
‘Simpson’ Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 92.
Type species: Anodonta ferussaciana Lea, 1834 = Anodontoides ferussacianus
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Anodontoides, since 1900.
Anodontoides — Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910), Ortmann (1912), ... Smith et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), Perkins et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Unio (Anodonta) — Call (1900)
Anodonta — de Gregorio (1914)
Anodonta (Anodontoides) — Frierson (1927)
