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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini genus Arotonaias Martens, 1900: synonymy
3 Recent valid species (3 total species) Arotonaias Martens, 1900
Martens, 1900. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Moll.: 480, 497.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Type species: Unio cyrenoides Philippi, 1847 (sub. desig. by Simpson, 1914: 311) = Arotonaias cyrenoides Ptychoderma Simpson, 1900
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 606.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 306.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Plagiola Rafinesque, 1819)
Type species: Unio cyrenoides Philippi, 1847 (original designation) = Arotonaias cyrenoides Artonaias Simpson, 1914
‘von Martens’ of Authors.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 311.
H.B. Baker, 1922. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (106): ??.
(error for Arotonaias Martens, 1900) Taxonomic History (since 1900)Plagiola (Ptychoderma) — Simpson (1900)
Unio (Arotonaias) — Martens (1900)
Plagiola — Simpson (1900), Goodrich & van der Schalie (1937)
Plagiola (Arotonaias) — Simpson (1914)
Arotonaias — Frierson (1927), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021)
Pachynaias — Haas (1929)
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