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 | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Hyriinae | Hyridellini
genus Cucumerunio Iredale, 1934: synonymy
1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)
Synonymy
Cucumaria Conrad, 1853
(homonym of Blainville, 1830 [Echin.])
Conrad, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 267.
Type species: Unio cucumoides Lea, 1840 (orig. desig.) = Cucumerunio novaehollandiae
Cucumeria Simpson, 1900
(error for Cucumaria Conrad, 1853)
‘Conrad’ of Authors.
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 889.
Thiele, 1934. Handb. Syst. Weichtierk. 3: 817 [1246].
Type species: Unio cucumoides Lea, 1840 = Cucumerunio novaehollandiae
Cucumerunio Iredale, 1934
Iredale, 1934. Austral. Zool. 8: 75.
Type species: Unio novaehollandiae Gray, 1834 (orig. desig.) = Cucumerunio novaehollandiae
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Cucumerunio, since 1900.
Diplodon (Hyridella sec. Cucumaria) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Nodularia (sec. Cafferia) — Simpson (1900)
Unio (sec. Cafferia) (Group of U. caffer) — Simpson (1914)
Virgus — Thiele (1934)
Cucumerunio — Iredale (1934), Modell (1942), Iredale (1943), McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Haas (1969), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), Klunzinger et al. (2022), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Lawrie et al. (2026), Prié et al. (2026)
Cafferia — Haas (1969)
