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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini

genus Middendorffinaia Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Middendorffinaia Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973

Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973. Byull. Mosk. Obshch.. Ispyt. Prir. 78(2): 26.
Type species: Unio mongolicus Middendorff, 1851 (orig. desig.) = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Sujfununio Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973

Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973. Byull. Mosk. Obshch.. Ispyt. Prir. 78(2): 30.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Middendorffinaia Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973)
Type species: Middendorffinaia (Suifununio) sujfunensis Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973 (orig. desig.) = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Pseudopotomida Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973

Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973. Byull. Mosk. Obshch.. Ispyt. Prir. 78(2): 31.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Middendorffinaia Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973)
Type species: Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) shadini Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973 (orig. desig.) = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Middendoffinaia Bogatov, 2022

‘Moskvicheva et Starobogatov’ Bogatov, 2022. Lg. Bivalve Moll. Russia’s Fresh Waters: 50.
( Middendorffinaia Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973)
Type species: Unio mongolicus Middendorff, 1851 = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Suifununio Bogatov, 2022

‘Moskvicheva et Starobogatov’ Bogatov, 2022. Lg. Bivalve Moll. Russia’s Fresh Waters: 59.
(error for Sujfununio Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973)
Type species: Middendorffinaia (Suifununio) sujfunensis Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973 = Middendorffinaia mongolica

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Margaritana — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Zhadin (1938)
Unio — Preston (1912), Haas (1940), Zhadin (1965), Haas (1969), Graf (2007), IUCN (2014), Araujo et al. (2018)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) — Preston (1915)
Middendorffinaia — Moskvicheva (1973), Martynov & Chernyshev (1992), Kantor & Sysoev (2005), Kantor et al. (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), ... Hou et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)
Middendorffinaia (s.s.) — Moskvicheva & Starobogatov (1973), Zatravkin (1983), Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987), Korniushin (1998), Starobogatov et al. (2004), Bogatov (2012), Vinarski & Kantor (2016), Bogatov & Prozorova (2017)
Middendorffinaia (Sujfununio) — Moskvicheva & Starobogatov (1973), Zatravkin (1983), Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987)
Middendorffinaia (Pseudopotomida) — Moskvicheva & Starobogatov (1973), Zatravkin (1983), Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987), Starobogatov et al. (2004), Vinarski & Kantor (2016), Bogatov & Prozorova (2017)
Margaritifera — Ziuganov et al. (1994)
Inversidens — Graf (2007), He & Zhuang (2013)
Nodularia — Lopes-Lima et al. (2020), Bolotov et al. (2020)

 
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