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Bivalvia | Unionoida | 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

Coates, 1925. Trans. Proc. Perthshire Soc. Nat. Sci. 8: 83.
(error for Pilsbryoconcha Simpson, 1900)
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.

Anodonta — Simpson (1900), Martens (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1969)
Pilsbryoconcha — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Haas (1920), Haas (1930), ... Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Konopleva et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025)
Pseudodon — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
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)

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