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genus Leguminaia Conrad, 1865: synonymy

3 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)

Synonymy

Leguminaia Conrad, 1865

Conrad, 1865. Amer. J. Conch. 1: 233.
Type species: Monocondyloea mardinensis Lea, 1865 (orig. desig.) = Leguminaia wheatleyi

Legumenaia Tryon, 1884

Tryon, 1884. Struct. Syst. Conch. 3: 132.
(error for Leguminaia Conrad, 1865)
Type species: Monocondyloea mardinensis Lea, 1865 = Leguminaia wheatleyi

Seguminaia Paetel, 1890

‘Conr.’ Paetel, 1890. Cat. Conch.-Samml. 3: 175.
(error for Leguminaia Conrad, 1865)
Type species: Monocondyloea mardinensis Lea, 1865 = Leguminaia wheatleyi

Pseudoleguminaia Germain, 1911

Germain, 1911. Bull. Mus. Nation. Hist. Natur. 17: 67.
Type species: Pseudodon chantrei Locard, 1883 (orig. desig.) = Leguminaia saulcyi

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Leguminaia (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Germain (1911), Simpson (1914), Haas (1969)
Anodonta — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Leguminaia — Kobelt (1904), Kobelt (1913), Simpson (1914), Thiele (1934), Pallary (1939), ... Bolotov et al. (2024), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Leguminaia (Pseudoleguminaia) — Germain (1911), Haas (1969)
Leguminaia (sec. Pseudoleguminaia) — Simpson (1914), Thiele (1934)