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genus Anodontoides Simpson in F.C. Baker, 1898: synonymy

Synonymy

Simpson in F.C. Baker, 1898. Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci. 3(1): 72.
(new name for Anodontopsis F.C. Baker, 1898)
Type species: Anodonta ferussaciana Lea, 1834 = Anodontoides ferussacianus

Simpson in F.C. Baker, 1898. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 8(5): 76.
(homonym of McCoy, 1851; renamed Anodontoides F.C. Baker, 1898)
Type species: Anodonta ferussaciana Lea, 1834 (original designation) = Anodontoides ferussacianus

‘Simpson’ Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 92.
(error for Anodontoides F.C. Baker, 1898)
Type species: Anodonta ferussaciana Lea, 1834 = Anodontoides ferussacianus

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), ... Whelan et al. (2023), Smith et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), Perkins et al. (2025), FMCS (2025)
Unio (Anodonta) — Call (1900)
Anodonta — de Gregorio (1914)
Anodonta (Anodontoides) — Frierson (1927)

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