Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae
3 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: ??.
(homonym of Meigen, 1800; renamed Pseudunio Haas, 1910)
Type species: Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819 (orig. desig.) = Pseudunio auricularius
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
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
Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 61, 283.
Type species: Unio flabellatus Goldfuss, 1837 (orig. desig.) = Pseudunio flabellata
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), 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), ... Dai et al. (2024), Chen et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
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)