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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Cristariina

genus Sinanodonta Modell, 1945: synonymy

10 Recent freshwater species (10 total species)

Synonymy

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)
Type species: Symphynota woodiana Lea, 1834 = Sinanodonta woodiana

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Anodonta — Simpson (1900), Martens (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908), ... Fukata & Iigo (2020), Chen et al. (2020), Whelan et al. (2023), Galal-Khallaf et al. (2024), Perkins et al. (2025)
Pilsbryoconcha — Simpson (1914), Dang et al. (1980), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012)
Anodonta (Pteranodon) — Zhadin (1938), Zhadin (1965)
Sinanodonta — Modell (1945), Dang et al. (1980), Martynov & Chernyshev (1992), Falkner et al. (2001), Falkner et al. (2002), ... Chen et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Cummings et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (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)
Oguranodonta — Kuroda & Habe (1987), Habe (1991), Kondo (2008)
Sinanodonta (Ellipsanodon) — Bogatov & Sayenko (2002)
Anemina — Prozorova 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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