Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Lepidodesmini
2 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)
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
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), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Anodonta — Ueji (1934)