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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Rectidentini | Rectidentina

genus Ensidens Frierson, 1911: synonymy

6 Recent freshwater species (6 total species)

Synonymy

Ensidens Frierson, 1911

Frierson, 1911. Nautilus 24(9): 98.
Type species: Unio ingallsianus Lea, 1852 (sub. desig. by Haas, 1913: 139) = Ensidens ingallsianus

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Nodularia (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Nodularia) — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Ensidens — Frierson (1911), F.R. Woodward (1969), Brandt (1974), Deein et al. (2004), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004), ... Wu et al. (2024), Liu et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Ensidens (s.s.) — Haas (1913), Thiele (1934), Haas (1952), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)

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