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

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Bivalvia | Sphaerioida | Sphaerioidea | Sphaeriidae | Sphaeriinae

genus Conventus Pirogov & Starobogatov, 1974: synonymy
     3 Recent valid species (3 total species)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Pisidium — Mori (1938), Herrington (1962), Mackie et al. (1980), Kuiper et al. (1989), Turgeon et al. (1998), ... Fauna Europaea (2012), Bößneck et al. (2016), Clewing et al. (2020), Saito et al. (2022), Clewing et al. (2022)
Pisidium (Neopisidium) — Kuiper (1962), Zhadin (1965), Clarke (1973), Burch (1975), Kuiper (1983), Korniushin (1998), Falkner et al. (2001), Korniushin & Glaubrecht (2002)
Pisidium (Afropisidium) — Subba Rao (1989), Nesemann et al. (2007), Gittenberger et al. (2018)
Conventus — Starobogatov et al. (2004), Kantor et al. (2010), Bespalaya et al. (2023)
Euglesa (Conventus) — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Pisidium (Odhneripisidium) — Bespalaya et al. (2017)
Euglesa — Vinarski et al. (2020)
Odhneripisidium — Príe et al. (2021), Bespalaya et al. (2021), Prié et al. (2023)