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

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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini

genus Leaunio Watters, 2018: synonymy
     5 Recent valid species (5 total species)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) — Simpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Carunculina) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Lampsilis (Proptera) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Alasmidonta (Pressodonta) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Eurynia (Micromya) — Ortmann (1912), Ortmann (1915), Ortmann (1916), Utterback (1916), Ortmann (1918)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) — Simpson (1914)
Unio — de Gregorio (1914)
Eurynia — Ortmann (1918)
Micromya — Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925)
Lampsilis (Ligumia) — Frierson (1927)
Carunculina — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969)
Nodularia — Frierson (1927)
Villosa — Clench & Turner (1956), R.I. Johnson (1970), Stansbery (1970), R.I. Johnson (1972), Burch (1975), ... Porto-Hannes et al. (2019), Inoue et al. (2020), Fukata & Iigo (2020), Klymus et al. (2020), Hauck et al. (2023)
Ligumia — Haas (1969)
Lemiox — Haas (1969)
Toxolasma — Howells et al. (1996), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), R.I. Johnson (1999)
Leaunio — Watters (2018), Burlakova et al. (2019), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), Rogers et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), ... Wu et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
V. — Marshall et al. (2018)