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Margaritiferidae

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Central America

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Lepidodesmini

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), ... Hou et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)
Anodonta — Ueji (1934)

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