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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Hyriinae | Hyriini genus Prisodon Schumacher, 1817: synonymy
2 Recent freshwater species (2 total species) Paxyodon Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1816. Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forhandl. Kjobehhaven 1816: 7. [nomen nudum]
Schumacher, 1817. Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 46, 139.
Type species: Paxyodon ponderosus Schumacher, 1817 (monotypy) = Prisodon syrmatophorus Prisodon Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1816. Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forhandl. Kjobehhaven 1816: 7. [nomen nudum]
Schumacher, 1817. Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 46, 139.
Type species: Prisodon obliquus Schumacher, 1817 (subsequent designation) = Prisodon obliquus Hyria Lamarck, 1819
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 81.
Type species: Hyria avicularis Lamarck, 1819 (subsequent designation) = Prisodon obliquus Paxiodon Blainville, 1821
Blainville, 1821. Dict. Sci. Nat. 22: 187.
(error for Paxyodon Schumacher, 1817) Ilyiria Fleming, 1822
Fleming, 1822. Phil. Zool. 2: 506. [nomen nudum] Triquetra Lea, 1852
Klein, 1753. Tent. Method. Ostrac., etc.: 135. [pre-linnaean]
Lea, 1852. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 17.
Mörch, 1853. Cat. Conch. Yoldi 2: 43.
(homonym of Blainville, 1828 [Veneridae])
Type species: Prisodon obliquus Schumacher, 1817 (herein) = Prisodon obliquus Prysodon Sabba Stefanescu, 1896
Sabba Stefanescu, 1896. Mém. Soc. Géol. France 15: 17.
(error for Prisodon Schumacher, 1817) Hyriana Simpson, 1900
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 872.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 1223.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Prisodon Schumacher, 1817)
Type species: Unio ortonii Lea, 1868 (original designation) = Prisodon obliquus Hyris Blainville, 1821
Blainville, 1821. Dict. Sci. Nat. 22: 395.
(error for Hyria Lamarck, 1819) Paxiodonta Deshayes, 1832
‘Schumacher’ Deshayes, 1832. Enc. Méth. 3: 712.
(error for Paxyodon Schumacher, 1817) Pachyodon Agassiz, 1846
‘Stutchb.’ Agassiz, 1846. Nomencl. Zool. Index Univ.: 270.
Woodward, 1871. Man. Moll: 434.
(error for Paxyodon Schumacher, 1817) Taxonomic History (since 1900)Prisodon (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Thiele (1934), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Diplodon — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Prisodon (Hyriana) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Prisodon — Ihering (1910), F. Baker (1913), Haas (1916), Ortmann (1921), H.B. Baker (1930), ... Guerra et al. (2019), Mansur et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Pfeiffer et al. (2021), Breure et al. (2022)
Hyria — Haas (1916)
Physunio (s.s.) — Haas (1920), Haas (1969)
Paxyodon — Parodiz & Bonetto (1963), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Mansur & Valer (1992), Mansur et al. (1997), ... Bogan (2010), Pereira et al. (2014), Santos-Neto et al. (2016), Santos-Neto et al. (2018), Mansur et al. (2020)
Physunio — Brandt (1974)
Prisodon (Paxyodon) — Graf & Cummings (2007)
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