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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae
genus Pseudunio Haas, 1910: synonymy
3 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)
Synonymy
Potodoma Herrmannsen, 1846
(homonym of Meigen, 1800; renamed Pseudunio Haas, 1910)
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: ??.
Type species: Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819 (orig. desig.) = Pseudunio auricularius
Baryana Locard, 1889
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Bourguignat in Locard, 1889. Contr. Faune Malacol. Franc. 13: 124.
Type species: Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819 (monotypy) = Pseudunio auricularius
Pseudunio Haas, 1910
(new name for Potodoma Herrmannsen, 1846)
Haas, 1910. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 42: 181.
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
Pseudounio Sakai et al., 2022
(error for Pseudunio Haas, 1910)
‘Haas’ Sakai et al., 2022. Venus 80(3-4): 47.
Type species: Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819 = Pseudunio auricularius
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Pseudunio, since 1900.
Margaritana — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Ortmann (1912), Ortmann (1913), Haas (1924), Germain (1931), Pallary (1939)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) — Simpson (1900)
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), ... Chen et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Leguminaia (Rhombunio) — Germain (1911)
Margaritana (Group of M. margaritifera) — Simpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) (Group U. littoralis) — Simpson (1914)
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)
