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

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Contradentini

genus Physunio Simpson, 1900: synonymy
     4 Recent valid species (4 total species)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Physunio (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Haas (1919), Haas (1920), Thiele (1934), Haas (1952), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Physunio (sec. Lens) — Preston (1915)
Physunio (Lens) — Prashad (1932)
Physunio — Brandt (1974), Marwoto (1987), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), ... Dai et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Contradens — Pfeiffer & Graf (2015), Bolotov et al. (2017), Konopleva et al. (2017)