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 | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Pseudodontini | Pseudodontina
genus Pilsbryoconcha Simpson, 1900: synonymy
9 Recent freshwater species (9 total species)
Synonymy
Pilsbryoconcha Simpson, 1900
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 587.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 239.
Type species: Anodonta exilis Lea, 1838 (orig. desig.) = Pilsbryoconcha exilis
Pilsbryocandra Coates, 1925
(error for Pilsbryoconcha Simpson, 1900)
Coates, 1925. Trans. Proc. Perthshire Soc. Nat. Sci. 8: 83.
Type species: Anodonta exilis Lea, 1838 = Pilsbryoconcha exilis
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Pilsbryoconcha, since 1900.
Pilsbryoconcha — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Haas (1920), Haas (1930), ... Klymus et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Zieritz et al. (2026), Li et al. (2026)
Anodonta — Martens (1900)
Nodularia — Simpson (1914)
Nitia — Haas (1936), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2011)
Coelatura (Nitia) — Van Damme (1984)
Caelatura [sic] — Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Elliptio — Daget (1998)
Caelatura [sic] (Nitia) — Ibrahim et al. (1999)
