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genus Schistodesmus Simpson, 1900: synonymy

5 Recent freshwater species (6 total species)

Synonymy

Shistodesmus Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 803 [also as ‘Shistodesma’].
(incorrect original spelling of Schistodesmus Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Unio (Dysnomia) lampreyanus Baird & Adams, 1867 = Schistodesmus lampreyanus

Schistodesmus Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 803 [as ‘Shistodesmus’].
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 939.
(correct name for Shistodesmus Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Unio (Dysnomia) lampreyanus Baird & Adams, 1867 (orig. desig.) = Schistodesmus lampreyanus

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Shistodesmus [sic] — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Haas (1969)
Schistodesmus — Haas (1914), Simpson (1914), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), ... Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Shistodesmus — Habe (1977)
Lamprotula — Wu et al. (2020), Dai et al. (2025)