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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

Strophites Deshayes, 1832

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

Hemidon Swainson, 1840

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

Hemidonta Swainson, 1840

Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 412 (index).
(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

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

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), ... Hopper et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Perkins et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
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)