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

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Gibbosulinae

genus Gibbosula Simpson, 1900: synonymy
     4 Recent valid species (4 total species)

Gibbosula Simpson, 1900
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 804.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 941.
Type species: Mya crassa Wood, 1815 (original designation) = Gibbosula crassa

Margaritanopsis Haas, 1910
Haas, 1910. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 42): pl. 12.
Haas, 1912. Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 46): 121.
Haas, 1913. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 45: 33.
Type species: Unio laosensis Lea, 1863 (monotypy) = Gibbosula laosensis

Odhnerella Modell, 1964
Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 111.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Lamprotula Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Unio rochechouartii Heude, 1875 (orig. desig.) = Gibbosula rochechouartii

Margaritinopsis D.G. Smith, 2001
D.G. Smith, 2001. [in] Bauer & Wächtler, Ecol. Evol. Unionoida 145: 42.
(error for Margaritanopsis Haas, 1910)

Gipposula Prozorova et al., 2005
‘Simpson’
Prozorova et al., 2005. Byull. Dal'nev. Malak.Obshch. 9: 52.
(error for Gibbosula Simpson, 1900)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

GibbosulaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Frierson (1928), Dang et al. (1980), He & Zhuang (2013), ... Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025)
MargaritanaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (Lamprotula)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Quadrula)Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
MargaritanopsisHaas (1912), Prashad (1922), Haas (1924), Brandt (1974), D.G. Smith (2001), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004)
LamprotulaHaas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005), Hu (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), ... Xiong et al. (2012), IUCN (2012), Pfeiffer & Graf (2013), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis)Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Subba Rao (1989), Bolotov et al. (2016)
MargaritiferaZiuganov et al. (1994), Graf & Cummings (2007), Araujo et al. (2009), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), ... Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2018), Bespalaya et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Sano et al. (2020)
Lamprotula (Odhnerella)Yu et al. (2001)
Gipposula [sic]Prozorova et al. (2005)

 
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