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genus Acuticosta Simpson, 1900: synonymy

5 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)

Synonymy

Acuticosta Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 850.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 1139.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Parreysia Conrad, 1853)
Type species: Unio chinensis Lea, 1868 (orig. desig.) = Acuticosta chinensis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Parreysia (Acuticosta) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Parreysia (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Parreysia — Haas (1910), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta — Haas (1914), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), ... Chen et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)