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genus Echyridella McMichael & Hiscock, 1958: synonymy

3 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)

Synonymy

Echyridella McMichael & Hiscock, 1958

McMichael & Hiscock, 1958. Austral. J. Mar. Frwtr. Res. 9(3): 459.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Hyridella Swainson, 1840)
Type species: Unio menziesii Gray, 1843 (orig. desig.) = Echyridella menziesii

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Diplodon (Hyridella s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Diplodon (Hyridella sec. Cucumaria) — Simpson (1914)
Hyridella — McMichael (1957), Graf & Ó Foighil (2000), Bogan & Hoeh (2000), Walker et al. (2001), Hoeh et al. (2001), ... Bogan (2010), Breton et al. (2011), Mitchell et al. (2016), Guerra et al. (2017), Huang et al. (2018)
Velesunio — McMichael (1957)
Hyridella (s.s.) — McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Ponder (1964), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Hyridella (Echyridella) — McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Ponder (1964), Haas (1969), Santos-Neto et al. (2016), Wu et al. (2023)
Cucumerunio — McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Ponder (1964), Walker et al. (2001), Fenwick & Marshall (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2013)
Echyridella — Fenwick & Marshall (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2013), Walker et al. (2014), ... Wu et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2022), Wu et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)