MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
by Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
by Family
Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
by Geography
Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Acuticostini
genus Acuticosta Simpson, 1900: synonymy
2 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)
Synonymy
Acuticosta Simpson, 1900
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Parreysia Conrad, 1853)
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 850.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 1139.
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)
Parreysia (Acuticosta) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Parreysia — Haas (1910), Simpson (1914)
Acuticosta — Haas (1914), Thiele (1934), Morrison (1966), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), ... Chen et al. (2025), Nagel (2025), Wu et al. (2026), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Li et al. (2026)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) (Group of Q. leai) — Simpson (1914)
