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

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Alasmidontina

genus Strophitus Rafinesque, 1820: synonymy
     5 Recent valid species (8 total species)

Strophitus Rafinesque, 1820
Rafinesque, 1820. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 316.
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 59.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Anodonta Lamarck, 1799)
Type species: Anodonta undulata Say, 1817 (monotypy) = Strophitus undulatus

Hemiodon Swainson, 1840
Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 286-289, 381; 288 [as ‘Hemidon’].
(homonym of Swainson, 1840 [Helicidae]; renamed Pressodonta Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Anodonta undulata Say, 1817 (sub. desig. by Herrmannsen, 1847: 527) = Strophitus undulatus

Hemidonta Swainson, 1840
Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 412 (index).
(error for Hemiodon Swainson, 1840)

Stophites Chenu, 1859
Desmarest in
Chenu, 1859. Encycl. Hist. Nat., Crust. Moll. Zooph. 4: 212.
(error for Strophitus Rafinesque, 1820)

Strophites Deshayes, 1832
‘Rafinesque’
Deshayes, 1832. Enc. Méth. 3: 998.
(error for Strophitus Rafinesque, 1820)

Hemidon Swainson, 1840
Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 288.
(error for Hemiodon Swainson, 1840)

Strophilus Gray, 1847
‘Rafinesque’
Gray, 1847. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 15: 196.
(error for Strophitus Rafinesque, 1820)

Uniopsis Agassiz, 1852
‘Swainson’
Agassiz, 1852. Arch. Naturg. 18(1): 49.
(reference to Uniopsis Swainson, 1840)
Type species: Alasmodonta edentula Say, 1829 = Strophitus undulatus

Hemiodonta Simpson, 1900
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 667, footnote.
(error for Hemidonta Swainson, 1840)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

StrophitusSimpson (1900), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910), ... Smith et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Liu et al. (2023), Hopper et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023)
Unio (Anodonta)Call (1900)
Strophitus (s.s.)Simpson (1914), Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
AnodontoidesSimpson (1914), Clench & Turner (1956), R.I. Johnson (1967), Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), ... ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Bogan & Raley (2013), Williams et al. (2014), Williams et al. (2017)
AnodontaRussell (1934), Henderson (1935)
S.Marshall et al. (2018)

 
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