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genus Schistodesmus Simpson, 1900: synonymy
5 Recent valid species (6 total species)

Shistodesmus Simpson, 1900
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 803 [also as ‘Shistodesma’].
(incorrect original spelling of Schistodesmus Simpson, 1900)

Schistodesmus Simpson, 1900
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 803 [as ‘Shistodesmus’].
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 939.
(correct name for Shistodesmus Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Unio (Dysnomia) lampreyanus Baird & Adams, 1867 (orig. desig.) = Schistodesmus lampreyanus

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Shistodesmus [sic] — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Haas (1969)
Schistodesmus — Haas (1914), Simpson (1914), Thiele (1934), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), ... Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Shistodesmus — Habe (1977)
Lamprotula — Wu et al. (2020), Dai et al. (2025)

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