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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae genus Pseudunio Haas, 1910: synonymy
3 Recent valid species (5 total species) Potodoma Herrmannsen, 1846
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: ??.
(homonym of Meigen, 1800; renamed Pseudunio Haas, 1910)
Type species: Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819 (orig. desig.) = Pseudunio auricularius Baryana Locard, 1889
Bourguignat in Locard, 1889. Contr. Faune Malacol. Franc. 13: 124.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Type species: Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819 (monotypy) = Pseudunio auricularius Pseudunio Haas, 1910
Haas, 1910. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 42: 181.
(new name for Potodoma Herrmannsen, 1846)
Type species: Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819 (orig. desig.) = Pseudunio auricularius Plicatibaphia Starobogatov, 1970
Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 61, 283.
Type species: Unio flabellatus Goldfuss, 1837 (orig. desig.) = Pseudunio flabellata Taxonomic History (since 1900)Margaritana — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Ortmann (1912), Ortmann (1913), Simpson (1914), Haas (1924), Germain (1931), Pallary (1939)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio — Rochebrune (1903), Kobelt (1903)
Unio (Baryana) — Germain (1904)
Unio (Groupe Baryana) — Caziot (1907)
Pseudunio — Haas (1910), Falkner (1994), D.G. Smith (2001), Falkner et al. (2001), Falkner et al. (2002), ... Zieritz et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Chen et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)
Leguminaia (Rhombunio) — Germain (1911)
Margaritana (Potomida) — Thiele (1934)
Margaritifera — Haas (1940), Mandahl-Barth (1988), Ziuganov et al. (1994), Daget (1998), Nagel et al. (1998), ... Huang et al. (2019), Múrria et al. (2020), Sano et al. (2020), Fukata & Iigo (2020), Bashê (2022)
Psilunio — Haas (1940)
Margaritifera (Pseudunio) — Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Van Damme (1984), Schneider & Prieto (2011), Bolotov et al. (2016)
Potomida — Haas (1969), Schütt (1983)
Plicatibaphia — Starobogatov (1970)
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