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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 Sagittunio Watters, 2018: synonymy
     4 Recent valid species (4 total species)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) — Simpson (1900)
Unio (sec. Elliptio) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (s.s.) — Call (1900)
Lampsilis — Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910)
Eurynia (s.s.) — Ortmann (1912), Ortmann (1916), Utterback (1916)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) — Simpson (1914)
Unio — de Gregorio (1914), Henderson (1935)
Micromya — Ortmann (1924)
Lampsilis (Ligumia) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1930)
Ligumia — F.C. Baker (1928), Murray & Leonard (1962), Haas (1969), R.I. Johnson (1970), Burch (1975), ... Jones (2015), Scott et al. (2016), Williams et al. (2017), Gasparini et al. (2020), Hata et al. (2022)
Villosa — R.I. Johnson (1970), Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), Bogan (2002), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Williams et al. (2017)
Sagittunio — Watters (2018), Burlakova et al. (2019), Scott et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)
L. — Marshall et al. (2018)