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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Chamberlainiini

genus Chamberlainia Simpson, 1900: synonymy

3 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)

Synonymy

Chamberlainia Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 582.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 219.
Type species: Unio hainesianus Lea, 1856 (orig. desig.) = Chamberlainia hainesiana

Simpsonia Rochebrune, 1904

Rochebrune, 1904. Bull. Mus. Nation. Hist. Natur. 10: 465.
Type species: Unio duclerci Rochebrune, 1882 (original designation) = Chamberlainia duclerci

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Chamberlainia — Simpson (1900), Rochebrune (1904), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Haas (1924), ... Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Simpsonia — Rochebrune (1904)

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