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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini

genus Arotonaias Martens, 1900: synonymy

4 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)

Synonymy

Arotonaias Martens, 1900

Martens, 1900. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Moll.: 480, 497.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Type species: Unio cyrenoides Philippi, 1847 (sub. desig. by Simpson, 1914: 311) = Arotonaias cyrenoides

Ptychoderma Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 606.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 306.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Plagiola Rafinesque, 1819)
Type species: Unio cyrenoides Philippi, 1847 (orig. desig.) = Arotonaias cyrenoides

Artonaias Simpson, 1914

‘von Martens’ of Authors.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 311.
H.B. Baker, 1922. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (106): ??.
(error for Arotonaias Martens, 1900)
Type species: Unio cyrenoides Philippi, 1847 = Arotonaias cyrenoides

Reticulatus Frierson, 1927

Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 10 [as ‘Reticulata’], 38.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Elliptio Rafinesque, 1819)
Type species: Nephronaias reticulatus Simpson, 1900 (orig. desig.) = Arotonaias reticulata

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Nephronaias — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Plagiola (Ptychoderma) — Simpson (1900)
Plagiola — Simpson (1900), Goodrich & van der Schalie (1937)
Unio (Arotonaias) — Martens (1900)
Plagiola (Arotonaias) — Simpson (1914)
Elliptio (Reticulatus) — Frierson (1927)
Arotonaias — Frierson (1927), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021), Cummings et al. (2025)
Pachynaias — Haas (1929)
Elliptio — Thiele (1934)
Nephronaias (Reticulatus) — Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Reticulatus — Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2021)

 
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