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genus Nephritica Frierson, 1927: synonymy

2 Recent freshwater species (2 total species)

Synonymy

Nephritica Frierson, 1927

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Elliptio Rafinesque, 1819)
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 38.
Type species: Unio poeyanus Lea, 1857 (orig. desig.) = Nephritica poeyana

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Unio (sec. Elliptio) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Nephronaias) — Martens (1900)
Elliptio (Nephritica) — Frierson (1927)
Elliptio — Thiele (1934)
Nephronaias (Nephritica) — Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Nephritica — Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2021), Czaja et al. (2023), Cummings et al. (2025)