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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae

genus Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816: synonymy

7 Recent freshwater species (23 total species)

Synonymy

Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816

Schumacher, 1816. Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forhandl. Kjobehhaven 1816: 7 [as ‘Margartifera’].
(correct name for Margartifera Schumacher, 1816)
Type species: Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758 (monotypy) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Margaritana Schumacher, 1817

Schumacher, 1817. Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 41, 123.
Type species: Margaritana fluviatilis Schumacher, 1817 (monotypy) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Damaris Swainson, 1823

‘Leach’ Swainson, 1823. Zool. Illustr. 3(1): pl. 160.
Gray, 1840. Synopt. Cont. Brit. Mus. 42nd ed.: 138, 150.
Leach, 1852. Syn. Moll. Gr. Brit.: 321.
Type species: Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758 (monotypy) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Damalis Leach, 1847

Leach, 1847. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 20: 273.
(homonym of Fabricius, 1805 [Diptera]; error for Damaris Swainson, 1823)
Type species: Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758 (monotypy) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Unionidium Gray, 1851

Gray, 1851. List Brit. Animals Brit. Mus. (7): 105.
Type species: Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758 (monotypy) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Baphia Mörch, 1853

Meuschen, 1787. Mus. Gevers: 472 [as ‘Baphiæ’]. [nomen nudum]
‘Meusch. 1787’ Mörch, 1853. Cat. Conch. Yoldi 2: 48.
(homonym of Gray, 1847 [Malleidae]; intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Type species: Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758 (orig. desig.) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Margaritiferana Fagot, 1893

Fagot, 1893. Bull. Soc. Ramond 28: 258.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Margaritana Schumacher, 1817)
Type species: Unio elongata Lamarck, 1819 (monotypy) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Dahurinaia Starobogatov, 1970

Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 60, 282.
Type species: Unio (Alasm.) dahuricus Middendorff, 1850 (orig. desig.) = Margaritifera dahurica

Hungaramblema Starobogatov, 1970

Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 61, 283.
Type species: Margaritifera inaequiradiata hantkeni Modell, 1950 (orig. desig.) = Margaritifera hantkeni

Paraheudeana Starobogatov, 1970

Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 61, 283.
Type species: Unio valdensis Mantell, 1844 (orig. desig.) = Margaritifera valdensis

Schalienaia Starobogatov, 1970

Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 61, 283.
Type species: Unio hembeli Conrad, 1838 (orig. desig.) = Margaritifera hembeli

Kurilinaia Bogatov & Zatravkin, 1988

Zatravkin & Bogatov in Bogatov & Zatravkin, 1988. Trudy Zool. Inst. 187: 158.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Dahurinaia Starobogatov, 1970)
Type species: Dahurinaia kurilensis Zatravkin & Starobogatov, 1984 (original designation) = Margaritifera laevis

Pseudomargaritifera Ma, 1996

Ma, 1996. unknown publication: 420.
Type species: Pseudomargaritifera plana Ma, 1996 = Margaritifera plana

Solenoides Ma, 1996

Ma, 1996. unknown publication: 422.
Type species: Solenaia tanggulaensis Zhang et al., 1979 = Margaritifera tanggulaensis

Margartifera Schumacher, 1816

Schumacher, 1816. Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forhandl. Kjobehhaven 1816: 7.
(incorrect original spelling of Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816)
Type species: Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758 = Margaritifera margaritifera

Margatifera Schumacher, 1823

Schumacher, 1823. Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forhandl. Kjobehhaven: 6.
(error for Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816)
Type species: Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758 = Margaritifera margaritifera

Danalis Mörch, 1853

Mörch, 1853. Cat. Conch. Yoldi 2: 48.
(intro'd as syn. of Baphia Mörch, 1853)
Type species: Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758 = Margaritifera margaritifera

Margaritiana Yang et al., 2014

Yang et al., 2014. mtDNA 26(5): 716.
(error for Margaritana Schumacher, 1817)
Type species: Margaritana fluviatilis Schumacher, 1817 = Margaritifera margaritifera

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

MargaritanaSimpson (1900), Rochebrune (1903), Kobelt (1904), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910), ... Zhadin (1938), Clench & Turner (1956), Zhadin (1965), Liu et al. (1979), Bába (2000)
Unio (sec. Lymnium)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Margaritana (Pseudunio)Hannibal (1912)
MigranajaHannibal (1912)
PtychorhynchusSimpson (1914)
MargaritiferaModell (1931), Henderson (1935), Mandahl-Barth (1938), Haas (1940), Modell (1942), ... Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025)
Margaritana (s.s.)Thiele (1934)
UnioHenderson (1935), Kira (1954)
CumberlandiaModell (1957)
Margaritifera (Pseudunio)Mongin (1963)
Margaritifera (s.s.)Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Falkner et al. (2001), Falkner et al. (2002), Bolotov et al. (2016)
DahurinaiaStarobogatov (1970), Moskvicheva (1973), Zatravkin (1983), Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987), Bogatov et al. (2003), ... Bogatov (2012), Takeuchi et al. (2015), Feng et al. (2016), Vinarski & Kantor (2016), Aunins et al. (2018)
SchalienaiaStarobogatov (1970)
ParaheudeanaStarobogatov (1970)
HungaramblemaStarobogatov (1970)
Dahurinaia (s.s.)Bogatov & Zatravkin (1988), Korniushin (1998)
Dahurinaia (Kurilinaia)Bogatov & Zatravkin (1988), Korniushin (1998)
Margaritifera (Dahurinaia)Habe (1991), Ziuganov et al. (1994)
PseudunioD.G. Smith (2001)
MargaritanopsisD.G. Smith (2001)
KurilinaiaBogatov et al. (2003), Starobogatov et al. (2004), Kantor & Sysoev (2005), Kantor et al. (2010)
PseudomargaritiferaFang et al. (2009)
SolenoidesFang et al. (2009)
Margaritiana [sic]Yang et al. (2014)
Margaritifera?Delvene et al. (2016)

 
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