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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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species Pseudodon vagulus (Fischer, 1891): synonymy
     24 specimens + 1 Genbank voucher

Unio subtrigonus Sowerby, 1867
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 58, fig. 292; errata [changed to U. cambojensis Petit’].
(renamed Unio vagulus Fischer, 1891; homonym of Unio subtrigonus Noulet, 1864)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1874-12-11-3, Siam.

Hyriopsis (s.s.) vagulusSimpson (1900)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) vagulaSimpson (1914)
Pseudodon (Monodontina) cambodjensisHaas (1920), Haas (1924), Haas (1969)
Pseudodon cambodjensis cambodjensisBrandt (1974)
Pseudodon cambodjensisIUCN (2011)
Monodontina cambodjensisBolotov et al. (2020)
Pseudodon vagulusBolotov et al. (2023), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025)

Unio vagulus Fischer, 1891
Sowerby, 1867. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 58, fig. 292 [as ‘Unio subtrigonus’].
Fischer, 1891. Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 4: 223.
(new name for Unio subtrigonus Sowerby, 1867)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1874-12-11-3, Siam.

Hyriopsis (s.s.) vagulusSimpson (1900)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) vagulaSimpson (1914)
Pseudodon (Monodontina) cambodjensisHaas (1920), Haas (1969)
Pseudodon cambodjensis cambodjensisBrandt (1974)
Pseudodon cambodjensisIUCN (2011)
Monodontina cambodjensisBolotov et al. (2020)
Pseudodon vagulusBolotov et al. (2023), Zieritz et al. (2024), Jeratthitikul et al. (2024), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Konopleva et al. (2025), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Zieritz et al. (2026)

Pseudodon cambodjensis tenerrimus Brandt, 1974
Brandt, 1974. Arch. Moll. 105: 270, pl. 20, fig. 29.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Monocondylea cambodjensis Petit de la Saussaye, 1865)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE SMF_188817, Thailand: Songkram at Sri Sonkram.

Pseudodon cambodjensis tenerrimusBrandt (1974)
Monodontina cambodjensisBolotov et al. (2020)
Pseudodon vagulusBolotov et al. (2023), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025)

Pseudodon cambodjensis Bolotov et al., 2023
‘Petit de Saussaye’ of Authors.
Bolotov et al., 2023. Water 15: Dataset S1.
Zieritz et al., 2024. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 201, zlae076: Table S4.
Jeratthitikul et al., 2024. Zoosyst. Evol. 100(4): Table S1.
Jeratthitikul et al., 2025. ZooKeys 1224: Table S1.
Konopleva et al., 2025. Ecologica Montenegrina 88: Supplementary Dataset 1.
(misidentified reference to Monocondylea cambodjensis Petit de la Saussaye, 1865)

Pseudodon vagulusJeratthitikul et al. (2025)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Hyriopsis (s.s.) vagulusSimpson (1900)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) vagulaSimpson (1914)
Pseudodon (Monodontina) cambodjensisHaas (1920), Haas (1924), Haas (1969)
Pseudodon cambodjensis cambodjensisBrandt (1974)
Pseudodon cambodjensis tenerrimusBrandt (1974)
Pseudodon cambodjensisIUCN (2011)
Monodontina cambodjensisBolotov et al. (2020)
Pseudodon vagulusBolotov et al. (2023), Zieritz et al. (2024), Jeratthitikul et al. (2024), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Konopleva et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Zieritz et al. (2026)

 
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