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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Iridinidae | Iridininae genus Pleiodon Conrad, 1834: synonymy
2 Recent freshwater species (7 total species) Pleiodon Conrad, 1834
Conrad, 1834. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 7(1): 178.
Conrad, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 267.
(renamed Pliodon Agassiz, 1846)
Type species: Pleiodon macmurtriei Conrad, 1834 (monotypy) = Pleiodon ovatus Cameronia Bourguignat, 1879
Bourguignat, 1879. Descr. Div. Espèces Terr. Fluv. Diff. Genres Moll. Égypte, Abyssinie, Zanzibar, Sénégal, Centre Afrique: 42.
Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 19.
Bourguignat, 1885. Notice Prodr. Moll. Giraud Tanganika: 106.
Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 66.
Bourguignat, 1886. Esp. Nouv. et Genres Nouv. Lac Oukékérewe et Tanganika: 26.
Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 67.
Type species: Iridina (Pleiodon) spekii Woodward, 1859 (orig. desig.) = Pleiodon spekii Pleodon Swainson, 1840
Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 286, footnote.
(error for Pleiodon Conrad, 1834) Pliodon Agassiz, 1846
Agassiz, 1846. Nomencl. Zool. Index Univ.: 299.
(new name for Pleiodon Conrad, 1834) Taxonomic History (since 1900)Pleiodon (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Pain & Woodward (1964)
Pleiodon (Cameronia) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Pain & Woodward (1964)
Pleiodon — E.A. Smith (1904), E.A. Smith (1906), Kobelt (1910), Simpson (1914), Kat (1987), ... IUCN (2010), Van Damme & Pickford (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Zieritz et al. (2013), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Cameronia — Kobelt (1910)
Iridina (Pleiodon) — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Iridina (Cameronia) — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Leloup (1950), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Iridina (sec. Pliodon) — Thiele (1934)
Iridina (sec. Cameronia) — Thiele (1934)
Mutela — Mandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), IUCN (2010)
Iridina — Graf (2000), Van Damme & Pickford (2010)
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