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genus Diaurora Cockerell, 1903: synonymy

2 Recent freshwater species (2 total species)

Synonymy

Aurora Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 849.
(homonym of Ragonot, 1887 [Lepid.]; intro'd as sub-gen. of Parreysia Conrad, 1853; renamed Diaurora Cockerell, 1903)
Type species: Unio auroreus Heude, 1883 (orig. desig.) = Diaurora aurorea

Diaurora Cockerell, 1903

Cockerell, 1903. Nautilus 16: 118.
(new name for Aurora Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Unio auroreus Heude, 1883 = Diaurora aurorea

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Parreysia (Aurora) — Simpson (1900)
Parreysia (Diaurora) — Simpson (1914), Thiele (1934)
Diaurora — Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Dang et al. (1980), Prozorova et al. (2005), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), Liu et al. (2022), Chen et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Acuticosta — Wu et al. (1999), Soliman et al. (2016)
Parreysia — Hu (2005), Xiong et al. (2012)

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