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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Lamellidentini

genus Balwantia Prashad, 1919: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (2 total species)

Synonymy

Balwantia Prashad, 1919

Prashad, 1919. Rec. Ind. Mus. 16: 290.
Type species: Anodonta soleniformis Benson, 1836 (orig. desig.) = Balwantia soleniformis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Solenaia — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Preston (1915), Subba Rao (1989), Graf & Cummings (2007), Ramakrishna & Dey (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2010)
Balwantia — Prashad (1919), Prashad (1932), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Bolotov et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Pfeiffer et al. (2021), Bolotov et al. (2022), Bolotov et al. (2023), Bolotov et al. (2024)

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