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

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genus Middendorffinaia Moskvicheva & Starobogatov, 1973: synonymy
     1 Recent valid species (1 total species)

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)

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

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

MargaritanaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Zhadin (1938)
UnioPreston (1912), Haas (1940), Zhadin (1965), Haas (1969), Graf (2007), IUCN (2014), Araujo et al. (2018)
Unio (sec. Lymnium)Preston (1915)
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 (Pseudopotomida)Moskvicheva & Starobogatov (1973), Zatravkin (1983), Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987), Starobogatov et al. (2004), Vinarski & Kantor (2016), Bogatov & Prozorova (2017)
MiddendorffinaiaMoskvicheva (1973), Martynov & Chernyshev (1992), Kantor & Sysoev (2005), Kantor et al. (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), ... Dai et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Middendorffinaia (Sujfununio)Moskvicheva & Starobogatov (1973), Zatravkin (1983), Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987)
MargaritiferaZiuganov et al. (1994)
InversidensGraf (2007), He & Zhuang (2013)
NodulariaLopes-Lima et al. (2020), Bolotov et al. (2020)

 
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