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

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genus Echyridella McMichael & Hiscock, 1958: synonymy
     3 Recent valid species (4 total species)

Echyridella McMichael & Hiscock, 1958
McMichael & Hiscock, 1958. Austral. J. Mar. Frwtr. Res. 9(3): 459.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Hyridella Swainson, 1840)
Type species: Unio menziesii Gray, 1843 (orig. desig.) = Echyridella menziesii

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Diplodon (Hyridella s.s.)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Diplodon (Hyridella sec. Cucumaria)Simpson (1914)
VelesunioMcMichael (1957)
HyridellaMcMichael (1957), Graf & Ó Foighil (2000), Bogan & Hoeh (2000), Walker et al. (2001), Hoeh et al. (2001), ... Bogan (2010), Breton et al. (2011), Mitchell et al. (2016), Guerra et al. (2017), Huang et al. (2018)
Hyridella (s.s.)McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Ponder (1964), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Hyridella (Echyridella)McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Ponder (1964), Haas (1969), Santos-Neto et al. (2016), Wu et al. (2023)
CucumerunioMcMichael & Hiscock (1958), Ponder (1964), Walker et al. (2001), Fenwick & Marshall (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2013)
EchyridellaFenwick & Marshall (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2013), Walker et al. (2014), ... Wu et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2022), Wu et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025)

 
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