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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.

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