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genus Pseudodontoideus Frierson, 1927: synonymy

2 Recent freshwater species (2 total species)

Synonymy

Pseudodontoides Modell, 1964

(error for Pseudodontoideus Frierson, 1927)
‘Frierson’ of Authors.
Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 91.
Pfeiffer et al., 2019. MPE 137: 124.
Type species: Margaritana alabamensis Lea, 1861 = Pseudodontoideus connasaugaensis

Pseudodontoideus Frierson, 1927

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Strophitus Rafinesque, 1820)
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 23.
Type species: Margaritana alabamensis Lea, 1861 (orig. desig.) = Pseudodontoideus connasaugaensis

Pseudodontideus Thiele, 1934

(error for Pseudodontoideus Frierson, 1927)
‘Frierson’ Thiele, 1934. Handb. Syst. Weichtierk. 3: 832 [1267].
Type species: Margaritana alabamensis Lea, 1861 = Pseudodontoideus connasaugaensis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Lampsilis (s.s.) — Simpson (1900)
Anodonta — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Clench & Turner (1956), Burch (1975)
Strophitus — Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1923), Thiele (1934), R.I. Johnson (1967), Burch (1975), ... Haag (2012), Inoue et al. (2014), Williams et al. (2017), Inoue et al. (2018), Hauck et al. (2023)
Strophitus (s.s.) — Simpson (1914), Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Anodonta (Pyganodon) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1970), Heard (1975)
Strophitus (Pseudodontoideus) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Pyganodon — Brim Box & Williams (2000)
Pseudodontoideus — Smith et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021), FMCS (2021), Whelan et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), Perkins et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)