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 | 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), ... Chen et al. (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Li et al. (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Simpsonia — Rochebrune (1904), Simpson (1914), Morrison (1966)
