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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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genus Pletholophus Simpson, 1900: synonymy
     4 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)

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)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Cristaria (Pletholophus)Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Kuroda (1941), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Heard (1977)
DalliellaSimpson (1900), Preston (1912)
AnodontaDautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
CristariaMartens (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)
SimpsonellaSimpson (1914)
UnioSimpson (1914)
Cristaria (sec. Pletholophus)Thiele (1934)
PletholophusModell (1945), Habe (1977), Dang et al. (1980), Lopes-Lima et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), ... Chen et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025)
Anodonta (Sinanodonta)Habe (1977)
Pletolophus [sic]Prozorova et al. (2005)
SinanodontaBogatov & Prozorova (2017)

 
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