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genus Pletholophus Simpson, 1900: synonymy

4 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)

Synonymy

Pletholophus Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 585.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 229.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Cristaria Schumacher, 1817)
Type species: Symphynota discoidea Lea, 1834 (original designation) = Pletholophus tenuis

Pletolophus Starobogatov, 1970

‘Simpson’ Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 67.
‘Simpson’ Prozorova et al., 2005. Byull. Dal'nev. Malak.Obshch. 9: 55.
(error for Pletholophus Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Symphynota discoidea Lea, 1834 = Pletholophus tenuis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Cristaria (Pletholophus) — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Kuroda (1941), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Heard (1977)
Dalliella — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912)
Anodonta — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Cristaria — Martens (1905), Wu (1982), Hu (2005), Sayenko et al. (2005), Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012), Xiong et al. (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Kano et al. (2019), Hata et al. (2022)
Simpsonella — Simpson (1914)
Unio — Simpson (1914)
Cristaria (sec. Pletholophus) — Thiele (1934)
Pletholophus — Modell (1945), Habe (1977), Dang et al. (1980), Lopes-Lima et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), ... Dai et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2026)
Anodonta (Sinanodonta) — Habe (1977)
Pletolophus [sic] — Prozorova et al. (2005)
Sinanodonta — Bogatov & Prozorova (2017)