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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Gonideini

genus Obovalis Simpson, 1900: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Obovalis Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 840.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 1101.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Pseudodon Gould, 1844)
Type species: Pseudodon loomisi Simpson, 1900 (orig. desig.) = Obovalis omiensis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Nodularia (s.s.)Simpson (1900), Haas (1911), Simpson (1914)
Pseudodon (sec. Obovalis)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Thiele (1934)
PseudodonSimpson (1900), Kuroda (1963), Graf (2007), Bogan (2010), Zieritz et al. (2018)
Pseudodon (Obovalis)Haas (1920), Kira (1954), Kira (1959), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Habe (1977), Habe (1991), Graf & Cummings (2007)
ObovalisKondo (2008), Sano et al. (2017), Kano et al. (2019), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Mabuchi & Nishida (2020), ... Bolotov et al. (2023), Liu et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025)
Pseudodon obovalisKongim et al. (2015)

 
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