Bivalvia | Myida | Dreissenoidea | Dreissenidae

genus Mytilopsis Conrad, 1857: synonymy

3 Recent freshwater species (8 total species)

Synonymy

Mytilopsis Conrad, 1857

Conrad, 1857. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 9: 167.
Type species: Mytilus leucophaeatus Conrad, 1831 (monotypy) = Mytilopsis leucophaeata

Praxis Adams & Adams, 1857

(homonym of Guenée, 1852 [Lepid.]; intro'd as sub-gen. of Dreissena Van Beneden, 1835)
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 522.
Type species: Dreissena africana Van Beneden, 1835 (sub. desig. by Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 455) = Mytilopsis africana

Mytiloides Conrad, 1874

(error for Mytilopsis Conrad, 1857)
Conrad, 1874. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 26: 29.
Type species: Mytilus leucophaeatus Conrad, 1831 = Mytilopsis leucophaeata

Mylitoides Conrad, 1874

(error for Mytilopsis Conrad, 1857)
Conrad, 1874. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 26: 83.
Type species: Mytilus leucophaeatus Conrad, 1831 = Mytilopsis leucophaeata

Andrusoviconcha Starobogatov, 1970

Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 83.
Type species: Congeria modiolopsis Andrusov, 1897 (orig. desig.) = Mytilopsis modiolopsis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Mytilopsis, since 1900.

Congeria — Pilsbry (1911), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Mansur et al. (2019)
Mytilopsis — Pilsbry (1911), Morrison (1946), Olsson (1961), Keen (1971), Marelli & Gray (1985), ... Príe et al. (2021), Breure et al. (2022), Czaja et al. (2023), Wang et al. (2024), Huang et al. (2025)