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genus Lepidodesma Simpson, 1896: synonymy

2 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)

Synonymy

Lepidodesma Simpson, 1896

Simpson, 1896. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 18: 311.
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 586.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 237.
Type species: Unio languilati Heude, 1874 (sub. desig. by Simpson, 1900: 586) = Lepidodesma languilati

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Lepidodesma — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Thiele (1934), Kuroda (1939), ... Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Anodonta — Ueji (1934)