Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Cristariina
7 Recent freshwater species (10 total species)
Gray, 1825 of Authors.
‘Leach’ Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 262, 266, 381.
(error for Dipsas Leach, 1814)
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 = Cristaria plicata
Humphrey, 1797. Mus. Col.: 59.
Gray, 1825. Ann. Phil. 9: 138.
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 (monotypy) = Cristaria plicata
Leach, 1814. Zool. Misc. 1: 119.
(homonym of Laurenti, 1768 [Rept.]; renamed Dipsax Cuvier, 1834; renamed Cleone Gistl, 1848)
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 (original designation) = Cristaria plicata
Schumacher, 1817. Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 38, 107.
Type species: Cristaria tuberculata Schumacher, 1817 (monotypy) = Cristaria plicata
Rafinesque, 1820. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 317.
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 60.
(reference to Dipsas Leach, 1814)
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 = Cristaria plicata
‘Leach’ Menke, 1830. Syn. Method. Moll.: 106.
(intro'd as syn. of Dipsas Leach, 1814)
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 = Cristaria plicata
Rafinesque, 1831. Continuation: 7.
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 85.
Type species: Dianisotis chinensis Rafinesque, 1831 (monotypy) = Cristaria plicata
Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834. [in] Cuvier, Animal Kingdom 12(39-40): 106.
(error for Dipsas Leach, 1814)
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 = Cristaria plicata
Voigt in Cuvier, 1834. Das Thierreich 3: 493.
(new name for Dipsas Leach, 1814)
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 = Cristaria plicata
Ferussac, 1835. Mag. Zool. 5(59-60): 23.
(error for Dianisotis Rafinesque, 1831)
Type species: Dianisotis chinensis Rafinesque, 1831 = Cristaria plicata
‘Humphrey’ Sowerby, 1839. Conch. Man.: 81.
Agassiz, 1845. Nom. Syst. Gen. Moll.: 10.
Agassiz, 1846. Nomencl. Zool. Index Univ.: 43.
(error for Barbala Gray, 1825)
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 = Cristaria plicata
Küster, 1842. Conch. Cab. Anodonta 9: pl. 27.
Clessin, 1873. Conchyl. Cab. 9(1): 93.
Type species: Unio (Anodonta) smaragdina Anton, 1839 = Cristaria plicata
‘Leach’ Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: 58.
(error for Appius Menke, 1830)
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 = Cristaria plicata
Gistl, 1848. Naturgesch. Thierreich Höhere Schulen: ix.
(new name for Dipsas Leach, 1814)
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 = Cristaria plicata
‘Lea’ Lea, 1852. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 46.
(error for Dianisotis Rafinesque, 1831)
Type species: Dianisotis chinensis Rafinesque, 1831 = Cristaria plicata
Kobelt, 1879. Zool. Jahresber. 1879: 883.
(error for Dipsas Leach, 1814)
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 = Cristaria plicata
‘Humphrey’ Zittel, 1881. Handb. Palaeo. 1: 59.
(error for Barbala Gray, 1825)
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 = Cristaria plicata
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 583.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 223.
(error for Cleone Gistl, 1848)
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 = Cristaria plicata
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 586.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 236.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Cristaria Schumacher, 1817)
Type species: Cristaria (Crassitesta) radiata Simpson, 1900 (original designation) = Cristaria radiata
‘Gistel’ [sic] Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 112.
(error for Cleone Gistl, 1848)
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 = Cristaria plicata
‘Rafinesque’ Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 112.
(error for Dianisotis Rafinesque, 1831)
Type species: Dianisotis chinensis Rafinesque, 1831 = Cristaria plicata
Bába, 2000. Boll. Malac. 36(5-8): 133.
(error for Cristaria Schumacher, 1817)
Type species: Cristaria tuberculata Schumacher, 1817 = Cristaria plicata
Kondo, 2008. Spec. Publ. Malac. Soc. Japan (3): 44.
(error for Dipsas Leach, 1814)
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 = Cristaria plicata
‘Menke’ Lopes-Lima et al., 2020. MPE 146: Appendix 1.
(error for Appius Menke, 1830)
Type species: Dipsas plicatus Leach, 1814 = Cristaria plicata
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Cristaria, since 1900.
Cristaria (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Heard (1977)
Cristaria (Crassitesta) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Haas (1969)
Dipsas — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Cristaria — Thiele (1934), Zhadin (1938), Kira (1954), Kira (1959), Kuroda (1963), ... Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2026), Chen et al. (2026), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Cristaria (sec. Crassitesta) — Thiele (1934)
Cristoria [sic] — Bába (2000)
Middendorffinaia — He & Zhuang (2013)
C. — Sheng et al. (2014)
Sinanodonta — Bogatov & Prozorova (2017)