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

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini

genus Diaurora Cockerell, 1903: synonymy
     2 Recent valid species (2 total species)

Aurora Simpson, 1900
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 849.
(homonym of Ragonot, 1887 [Lepid.]; intro'd as sub-gen. of Parreysia Conrad, 1853; renamed Diaurora Cockerell, 1903)
Type species: Unio auroreus Heude, 1883 (orig. desig.) = Diaurora aurorea

Diaurora Cockerell, 1903
Cockerell, 1903. Nautilus 16: 118.
(new name for Aurora Simpson, 1900)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Parreysia (Aurora)Simpson (1900)
Parreysia (Diaurora)Simpson (1914), Thiele (1934)
DiauroraHaas (1924), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Dang et al. (1980), Prozorova et al. (2005), ... Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Liu et al. (2022), Chen et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2025)
AcuticostaWu et al. (1999), Soliman et al. (2016)
ParreysiaHu (2005), Xiong et al. (2012)

 
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