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genus Strophitus Rafinesque, 1820: synonymy

5 Recent freshwater species (8 total species)

Synonymy

Strophitus Rafinesque, 1820

Rafinesque, 1820. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 316.
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 59.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Anodonta Lamarck, 1799)
Type species: Anodonta undulata Say, 1817 (monotypy) = Strophitus undulatus

Hemiodon Swainson, 1840

Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 286-289, 381; 288 [as ‘Hemidon’].
(homonym of Swainson, 1840 [Helicidae]; renamed Pressodonta Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Anodonta undulata Say, 1817 (sub. desig. by Herrmannsen, 1847: 527) = Strophitus undulatus

Hemidonta Swainson, 1840

Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 412 (index).
(error for Hemiodon Swainson, 1840)
Type species: Anodonta undulata Say, 1817 = Strophitus undulatus

Stophites Chenu, 1859

Desmarest in Chenu, 1859. Encycl. Hist. Nat., Crust. Moll. Zooph. 4: 212.
(error for Strophitus Rafinesque, 1820)
Type species: Anodonta undulata Say, 1817 = Strophitus undulatus

Strophites Deshayes, 1832

‘Rafinesque’ Deshayes, 1832. Enc. Méth. 3: 998.
(error for Strophitus Rafinesque, 1820)
Type species: Anodonta undulata Say, 1817 = Strophitus undulatus

Hemidon Swainson, 1840

Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 288.
(error for Hemiodon Swainson, 1840)
Type species: Anodonta undulata Say, 1817 = Strophitus undulatus

Strophilus Gray, 1847

‘Rafinesque’ Gray, 1847. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 15: 196.
(error for Strophitus Rafinesque, 1820)
Type species: Anodonta undulata Say, 1817 = Strophitus undulatus

Uniopsis Agassiz, 1852

‘Swainson’ Agassiz, 1852. Arch. Naturg. 18(1): 49.
(reference to Uniopsis Swainson, 1840)
Type species: Alasmodonta edentula Say, 1829 = Strophitus undulatus

Hemiodonta Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 667, footnote.
(error for Hemidonta Swainson, 1840)
Type species: Anodonta undulata Say, 1817 = Strophitus undulatus

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Strophitus — Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910), ... Liu et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Perkins et al. (2025), FMCS (2025)
Unio (Anodonta) — Call (1900)
Strophitus (s.s.) — Simpson (1914), Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Anodontoides — Simpson (1914), Clench & Turner (1956), R.I. Johnson (1967), Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), ... ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Bogan & Raley (2013), Williams et al. (2014), Williams et al. (2017)
Anodonta — Russell (1934), Henderson (1935)
S. — Marshall et al. (2018)