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Bivalvia | Unionoida | 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. Hist. Nat. 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. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Simpsonia — Rochebrune (1904)

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