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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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genus Sinanodonta Modell, 1945: synonymy
     10 Recent freshwater species (10 total species)

Pteranodon Fischer, 1887
Fischer, 1887. Manuel Conchyl.: 1003.
(homonym of Marsh, 1876 [Rept.]; intro'd as sub-gen. of Anodonta Lamarck, 1799)
Type species: Symphynota magnifica Lea, 1834 (monotypy) = Sinanodonta woodiana

Sinanodonta Modell, 1945
Modell, 1945. Jena. Z. Med. Naturw. 78: 96, 64.
Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 115.
Type species: Symphynota woodiana Lea, 1834 (orig. desig.) = Sinanodonta woodiana

Cristariopsis Moskvicheva, 1973
Moskvicheva, 1973. Zool. Zhur. 52(6): 828.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Sinanodonta Modell, 1945)
Type species: Sinanodonta (Cristariopsis) crassitesta Moskvicheva, 1973 (orig. desig.) = Sinanodonta schrenkii

Oguranodonta Kuroda & Habe, 1987
Kuroda & Habe, 1987. Venus 45: 217.
Habe, 1991. Hitachiobi 56: 4.
Type species: Oguranodonta ogurae Kuroda & Habe, 1987 (monotypy) = Sinanodonta tumens

Ellipsanodon Bogatov & Starobogatov, 1996
Bogatov & Starobogatov, 1996. Zool. Zhur. 75: 1328.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Sinanodonta Modell, 1945)
Type species: Sinanodonta (Ellipsanodon) ovata Bogatov & Starobogatov, 1996 (original designation) = Sinanodonta lauta

Sinoanodonta Chase et al., 2018
Chase et al., 2018. BMC Genomics 12, 221: Table S2.
(error for Sinanodonta Modell, 1945)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

AnodontaSimpson (1900), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Martens (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908), ... Fukata & Iigo (2020), Chen et al. (2020), Whelan et al. (2023), Galal-Khallaf et al. (2024), Perkins et al. (2025)
PilsbryoconchaSimpson (1914), Dang et al. (1980), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012)
Anodonta (Pteranodon)Zhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965)
SinanodontaModell (1945), Dang et al. (1980), Martynov & Chernyshev (1992), Falkner et al. (2001), Falkner et al. (2002), ... Wu et al. (2025), Perkins et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Cummings et al. (2025), FMCS (2025)
Anodonta (Haasiella)Modell (1945)
Anodonta (s.s.)Haas (1969)
Sinanodonta (s.s.)Moskvicheva (1973), Zatravkin (1983), Starobogatov & Izzatullaev (1984), Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987), Bogatov & Zatravkin (1988), Korniushin (1998), Bogatov & Sayenko (2002)
Sinanodonta (Cristariopsis)Moskvicheva (1973), Zatravkin (1983), Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987), Bogatov & Zatravkin (1988), Bogatov & Sayenko (2002)
Anodonta (Sinanodonta)Habe (1977), Habe (1991), Douda et al. (2012), Popa et al. (2015)
OguranodontaKuroda & Habe (1987), Habe (1991), Kondo (2008)
Sinanodonta (Ellipsanodon)Bogatov & Sayenko (2002)
AneminaProzorova et al. (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), Bogatov & Prozorova (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), Zieritz et al. (2018), Wu et al. (2018), Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019)
Sinoanodonta [sic]Chase et al. (2018)

 
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