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

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genus Etheria Lamarck, 1807: synonymy
     1 Recent valid species (1 total species)

Etheria Lamarck, 1807
Lamarck, 1807. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 400.
Lamarck, 1819. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 6: 98.
(renamed Aetheria Oken, 1818)
Type species: Etheria semilunata Lamarck, 1807 (sub. desig. by Gray, 1847: 193) = Etheria elliptica

Aetheria Oken, 1818
Oken, 1818. Isis (Oken) 1818: 1117.
Sowerby, 1825. Zool. Jour. 1: 518.
Berthold in Latreille, 1827. unknown publication: 208.
Wood, 1828. Suppl. Index Testac.: 38 [as ‘Ætheria].
Menke, 1828. Syn. Method. Moll.: 65.
Herrmannsen, 1846. Ind. Gener. Malacol. 1: 22.
Agassiz, 1846. Nomencl. Zool. Index Univ.: 10.
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 509.
Woodward, 1871. Man. Moll: 435.
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 53.
Zittel, 1881. Handb. Palaeo. 1: 58.
Westerlund, 1902. Rad. Jugoslav. Akad. 150: 138.
(new name for Etheria Lamarck, 1807)

Ethaeria Agassiz, 1839
‘Lamarck’ of Authors.
Agassiz, 1839. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 12: 418.
Sowerby, 1839. Conch. Man.: 17.
(error for Etheria Lamarck, 1807)

Caillaudiana Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 63.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Etheria Lamarck, 1807)
Type species: Aetheria cailliaudi Férussac, 1824 (monotypy) = Etheria elliptica

Niloticiana Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 65.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Etheria Lamarck, 1807)
Type species: Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 (sub. desig. by Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 448) = Etheria elliptica

Chambardiana Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 69.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Etheria Lamarck, 1807)
Type species: Aetheria chambardi Bourguignat, 1880 (monotypy) = Etheria elliptica

Letourneuxiana Bourguignat, 1880
Bourguignat, 1880. Mater. Moll. Acécphales Syst. Europ. 1: 69.
Type species: Aetheria petrettinii Bourguignat, 1880 (sub. desig. by Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927: 448) = Etheria elliptica

Etheriigenus Renier, 1807
Renier, 1807. Tav. Class. Anim.: Tab. vii. [suppressed]

Etherea Schweigger, 1820
‘Lam.’ Schweigger, 1820. Handb. Naturgesch.: 708.
(error for Etheria Lamarck, 1807)

Levourneaxiana Pain & Woodward, 1961
‘Bourguignat’ Pain & Woodward, 1961. J. of Conch. 25(1): 3.
(error for Letourneuxiana Bourguignat, 1880)

Nilotriciana Pain & Woodward, 1961
‘Bourguignat’ Pain & Woodward, 1961. J. of Conch. 25(1): 3.
(error for Niloticiana Bourguignat, 1880)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Aetheria — Pallary (1903), Kobelt (1904), Pallary (1909), Kobelt (1910), Thiele (1934), Dartevelle & Schwetz (1937), Dartevelle (1939), Franc (1949)
Ætheria — E.A. Smith (1904), E.A. Smith (1906), Germain (1907), Germain (1918)
Aetheria [sic] — Germain (1907), Germain (1925)
Etheria — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1936), Modell (1942), Leloup (1950), Pain & Woodward (1961), ... Graf & Cummings (2021), Smith (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Bolotov et al. (2024), Chen et al. (2025)
Aspatharia — Akindele et al. (2023)

 
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