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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini genus Lampsilis Rafinesque, 1820: synonymy
26 Recent valid species (34 total species) Lampsilis Rafinesque, 1820
Rafinesque, 1820. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 298.
Rafinesque, 1831. Continuation: 7.
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 43, 84.
Type species: Unio ovatus Say, 1817 (sub. desig. by Herrmannsen, 1847: 575) = Lampsilis ovata Aeglia Swainson, 1840
Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 265-268, 273, 275-277, 281, 285, 289-290, 378 [as ‘Æglia’].
Type species: Unio ovatus Say, 1817 (sub. desig. by Herrmannsen, 1846: 20) = Lampsilis ovata Simpsonunio Starobogatov, 1970
Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 71, 288.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Lampsilis Rafinesque, 1820)
Type species: Unio anodontoides Lea, 1831 (orig. desig.) = Lampsilis teres Aglia Gray, 1847
‘Swains.’ Gray, 1847. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 15: 196.
(error for Aeglia Swainson, 1840) Lampsida Landacre, 1902
Landacre, 1902. Ohio Naturalist 3(1): 320.
(error for Lampsilis Rafinesque, 1820) Lampsilus Cook & Mansfield, 1933
Mansfield in Cook & Mansfield, 1933. J. Washington Acad. Sci. 23: 267.
(error for Lampsilis Rafinesque, 1820) Lamsilis van der Schalie, 1934
van der Schalie, 1934. Nautilus 47(4): pl. 15.
(error for Lampsilis Rafinesque, 1820) Taxonomic History (since 1900)Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) — Simpson (1900)
Lampsilis (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Frierson (1927), Haas (1930), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1970), R.I. Johnson (1972)
Unio (s.s.) — Call (1900)
Lampsilis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1900), Ihering (1901), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), ... Dai et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025)
Unio (sec. Elliptio) — Simpson (1900)
Lampsida [sic] — Landacre (1902)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) — Simpson (1914)
Unio — de Gregorio (1914), Henderson (1935), Branson (1935), Yen (1952), Good (2004)
Eurynia (Micromya) — Utterback (1916)
Lampsilis (Ligumia) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1930)
Proptera — Frierson (1927)
Lampsilis (Ortmanniana) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Elliptio (s.s.) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Ligumia — Haas (1969)
Lampsilis (Simpsonunio) — Starobogatov (1970)
Villosa — Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), ITIS (2012)
Actinonaias — R.I. Johnson (1980)
“Unio” — Evanoff et al. (1998)
L. — Sheng et al. (2014)
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