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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae
genus Pseudunio Haas, 1910: synonymy
3 Recent freshwater species (8 total species)
Synonymy
Potodoma Herrmannsen, 1846
(renamed Pseudunio Haas, 1910; homonym of Meigen, 1800)
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 flabellatus
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), Ortmann (1912), Preston (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), Chen et al. (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Li et al. (2026)
Leguminaia (Rhombunio) — Germain (1911)
Margaritana (Group of M. margaritifera) — Simpson (1914)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) (Group U. littoralis) — Simpson (1914)
Margaritifera — Modell (1931), Haas (1940), Mandahl-Barth (1988), Ziuganov et al. (1994), Daget (1998), ... Huang et al. (2019), Múrria et al. (2020), Fukata & Iigo (2020), Sano et al. (2020), Bashê (2022)
Margaritana (Potomida) — Thiele (1934)
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), Gozhik (2006)
