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

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Margaritiferidae | Margaritiferinae

genus Cumberlandia Ortmann, 1912: synonymy
     1 Recent valid species (1 total species)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Margaritana — Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1912), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Margaritana) — Call (1900)
Unio — de Gregorio (1914)
Cumberlandia — Utterback (1915), Ortmann (1918), Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925), Frierson (1927), ... Wu et al. (2022), Jeratthitikul et al. (2022), Hopper et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2025)
Margaritana (Cumberlandia) — F.C. Baker (1928), Thiele (1934)
Margaritifera (Cumberlandia) — Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Margaritanopsis — D.G. Smith (2001)
Margaritifera — Graf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), Whelan et al. (2011), Pfeiffer & Graf (2015), Araujo et al. (2016), ... Huang et al. (2018), Inoue et al. (2018), Burzynski & Soroka (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Lor et al. (2020)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) — Bolotov et al. (2016)