MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
by Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
by Family
Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
by Geography
Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Lamproscaphini | Lamproscaphina
genus Hyriopsis Conrad, 1853: synonymy
10 Recent freshwater species (10 total species)
Synonymy
Hyriopsis Conrad, 1853
Conrad, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 267.
Type species: Unio delphinus Gruner, 1841 (monotypy) = Hyriopsis bialata
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Hyriopsis, since 1900.
Hyriopsis (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Brandt (1974), Habe (1977), Soliman et al. (2016)
Unio — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Hyriopsis — Haas (1910), Preston (1912), Ortmann (1916), Haas (1924), Haas (1930), ... Chen et al. (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Zieritz et al. (2026)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) (Group of H. bialata) — Simpson (1914)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) (Group of H. myersiana) — Simpson (1914)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) (Group of H. cumingii) — Simpson (1914)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) (Group of H. velthuizeni) — Simpson (1914)
Hyriopsis (Limnoscapha) — Brandt (1974), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004), Deein et al. (2004)
H. — Konopleva et al. (2019)
