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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Anodontini | Cristariina

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

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Cristaria (Pletholophus) — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Kuroda (1941), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Heard (1977)
Dalliella — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912)
Anodonta — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Cristaria — Martens (1905), Wu (1982), Hu (2005), Sayenko et al. (2005), Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012), Xiong et al. (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Kano et al. (2019)
Simpsonella — Simpson (1914)
Unio — Simpson (1914)
Cristaria (sec. Pletholophus) — Thiele (1934)
Pletholophus — Modell (1945), Habe (1977), Dang et al. (1980), Lopes-Lima et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), ... Chen et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Xiang et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2025)
Anodonta (Sinanodonta) — Habe (1977)
Pletolophus [sic] — Prozorova et al. (2005)
Sinanodonta — Bogatov & Prozorova (2017)