Bivalvia | Unionida | Etherioidea | Mycetopodidae | Anodontitinae

genus Lamproscapha Swainson, 1840: synonymy

2 Recent freshwater species (2 total species)

Synonymy

Lamproscapha Swainson, 1840

Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 286-287, 381.
Type species: Anodon ensiformis Spix in Wagner, 1827 (subsequent designation) = Lamproscapha ensiformis

Virgula Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 931.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 1454.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Glabaris Gray, 1847)
Type species: Anodon ensiformis Spix in Wagner, 1827 (original designation) = Lamproscapha ensiformis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Glabaris (sec. Virgula) — Simpson (1900)
Anodontites — F. Baker (1913), Bonetto (1962), Lasso et al. (2009)
Anodontites (sec. Virgula) — Simpson (1914)
Anodontites (Lamproscapha) — Ortmann (1921), Haas (1931), Haas (1932), Parodiz & Bonetto (1963), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Quintana (1982), Ramírez et al. (2003), Martinez et al. (2004), Rumi et al. (2008), Pereira et al. (2014), Torres et al. (2018)
Anodontites (Virgula) — H.B. Baker (1930)
Anodontites (sec. Lamproscapha) — Thiele (1934)
Lamproscapha — Morretes (1949), Simone (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Breure et al. (2022), Torres et al. (2024), Chen et al. (2025)