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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Mycetopodidae | Leilinae

genus Leila Gray, 1840: synonymy

2 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)

Synonymy

Columba Lea, 1838

Lea, 1838. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 6 [O. 2]: 78.
(homonym of Linnaeus, 1758 [Aves])
Type species: Anodonta blainvilliana Lea, 1834 (monotypy) = Leila blainvilliana

Leila Gray, 1840

Gray, 1840. Synopt. Cont. Brit. Mus. 42nd ed.: 138, 150.
Gray, 1847. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 15: 197.
Type species: Iridina esula d’Orbigny, 1835 (sub. desig. by Gray, 1847: 197) = Leila esula

Haplothaerus Conrad, 1874

Conrad, 1874. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 26: 82 [as ‘Haplothærus’].
Type species: Haplothaerus capax Conrad, 1874 (monotypy) = Leila capax

Columbia Modell, 1964

‘Lea’ Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 81.
(error for Columba Lea, 1838)
Type species: Anodonta blainvilliana Lea, 1834 = Leila blainvilliana

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Leila — Simpson (1900), Ihering (1910), Simpson (1914), Ortmann (1921), Haas (1931), ... Pereira et al. (2014), Torres et al. (2018), Mansur et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Torres et al. (2024)
Glabaris (s.s.) — Simpson (1900)
Anodontites (s.s.) — Simpson (1914), Haas (1931), Haas (1969)

 
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