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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | ... | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Gonideinae | Pseudodontini | Pseudodontina | Pseudodon species Pseudodon vondembuschianus (Lea, 1840): synonymy 153 specimens + 5 Genbank vouchers Margaritana vondembuschiana Lea, 1840
Lea, 1840. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1: 288 [as ‘vondenbuschiana’].
Lea, 1842. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 222 [60], pl. 18, fig. 39 [as ‘vondenbuschiana’]. Lea, 1852. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 45 [as ‘vondenbuschiana’]. Lea, 1870. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 73. (correct name for Margaritana vondenbuschiana Lea, 1840; renamed Monodontina buschiana Conrad, 1853) Type(s): FIGURED SYNTYPE USNM_86348, Java.
Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschianus — Simpson (1900), Thiele (1934) Pseudodon vondembuschianus — Martens (1900), Brandt (1974), Graf (2002), Graf & Cummings (2006), Walker et al. (2006), ... Chen et al. (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Zieritz et al. (2026) Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschiana — Preston (1912), Simpson (1914) Monodontina vondembuschiana — Prashad (1919), Bolotov et al. (2017), Huang et al. (2019), Froufe et al. (2019), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), ... Dai et al. (2023), Jeratthitikul & Sutcharit (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025) Pseudodon (Monodontina) vondembuschianus — Haas (1920), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007) Pseudodon vondenbuschianus — van Benthem Jutting (1953) Pseudodon vondenbuschianus [sic] — Marwoto (1987) — Subba Rao (1989) Pseudodon aff. vondembuschianus sp. 1 — Bolotov et al. (2017) Pseudodon aff. vondembuschianus sp. 2 — Bolotov et al. (2017) Monodontina aff. vondembuschiana sp. 1 — Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Konopleva et al. (2019), Huang et al. (2019), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020) Monodontina aff. vondembuschiana sp. 2 — Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2019) Pseudodon vondembuschiana — Pfeiffer et al. (2018) Monodontina vondembuschiana vondembuschiana — Konopleva et al. (2023) Pseudodon vondembuschianus vondembuschianus — Bolotov et al. (2023), Jeratthitikul et al. (2024), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025) Pseudodon vond. vondembuschianus — Zieritz et al. (2024) Pseudodon v. vondembuschianus — Konopleva et al. (2025) | |
Alasmodonta crispata Mousson, 1849
Mousson, 1849. Land-Süßw.-Moll. Java: 97, pl. 19, fig. 1.
Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschianus — Simpson (1900) Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschiana — Preston (1912), Simpson (1914) Pseudodon (Monodontina) vondembuschianus — Haas (1920), Haas (1969) Pseudodon vondenbuschianus — van Benthem Jutting (1953) Monodontina vondembuschiana — Bolotov et al. (2020) Pseudodon vondembuschianus vondembuschianus — Bolotov et al. (2023) Pseudodon vondembuschianus — Zieritz et al. (2026) | |
Alasmodonta zollingeri Mousson, 1849
 Mousson, 1849. Land-Süßw.-Moll. Java: 96, pl. 18, figs. 1-2. Type(s): SYNTYPE SMF_4685, Java.
Pseudodon (s.s.) zollingeri — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Pseudodon (Monodontina) zollingeri — Haas (1920) Pseudodon vondenbuschianus — van Benthem Jutting (1953) Pseudodon (Monodontina) vondembuschianus — Haas (1969) Monodontina vondembuschiana — Bolotov et al. (2020) Pseudodon vondembuschianus vondembuschianus — Bolotov et al. (2023) Pseudodon vondembuschianus — Zieritz et al. (2026) | |
Monodontina buschiana Conrad, 1853 Conrad, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 269. (new name for Margaritana vondembuschiana Lea, 1840)
Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschianus — Simpson (1900) Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschiana — Preston (1912), Simpson (1914) Pseudodon (Monodontina) vondembuschianus — Haas (1920) — Haas (1969) Monodontina vondembuschiana — Bolotov et al. (2020) Pseudodon vondembuschianus vondembuschianus — Bolotov et al. (2023) | |
Monocondyloea planulata Lea, 1859
Lea, 1859. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 11: 187 [as ‘Monocondylœa planulata’].
Lea, 1860. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 [O. 7]: 262, pl. 42, fig. 142. Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_86351, Java5989.
Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschianus — Simpson (1900) Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschiana — Preston (1912), Simpson (1914) Pseudodon (Monodontina) vondembuschianus — Haas (1920), Haas (1969) Monodontina vondembuschiana — Bolotov et al. (2020) Pseudodon vondembuschianus vondembuschianus — Bolotov et al. (2023) Pseudodon vondembuschianus — Zieritz et al. (2026) | |
Margaritana fragilis Küster, 1862 ‘Mousson’ Lea, 1852. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 45. [nomen nudum]
‘Mousson’ Küster, 1862. Conchyl. Cab. 9(2): 295, pl. 98, fig. 2.
Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschianus — Simpson (1900) Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschiana — Preston (1912), Simpson (1914) Pseudodon (Monodontina) vondembuschianus — Haas (1920), Haas (1969) Pseudodon vondenbuschianus — van Benthem Jutting (1953) Pseudodon vondembuschianus — Zieritz et al. (2026) | |
Monocondylea cambodjensis Petit de la Saussaye, 1865
 Petit de la Saussaye, 1865. J. de Conch. 13: 16, pl. 4, fig. 4. Type(s): SYNTYPES MNHN_IM-2000-34622, Battambang, Cambodge.
Pseudodon (s.s.) cambodjensis — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914) Pseudodon (Monodontina) cambodjensis — Haas (1920), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007) Pseudodon cambodjensis cambodjensis — Brandt (1974) Pseudodon cambodjensis — Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), Pfeiffer & Graf (2013), Pfeiffer & Graf (2015), Zieritz et al. (2016), ... Dai et al. (2025), Konopleva et al. (2025), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026) Monodontina cambodjensis — Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020), Ng et al. (2020), Pfeiffer et al. (2021), Graf & Cummings (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Konopleva et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2023) Monodontina cambodiensis [sic] — Konopleva et al. (2021), Jeratthitikul et al. (2021) Pseudodon vondembuschianus — Zieritz et al. (2026) | |
Monocondylus orbicularis Morelet, 1866
Morelet, 1866. Rev. Mag. Zool. 18: 167.
Morelet, 1875. Séries Conch. 4: 338, pl. 16, fig. 5 [as ‘Pseudodon’]. Type(s): FIGURED SYNTYPE BMNH_93-2-4-1982, Battambang, Siam.
Pseudodon (sec. Suborbiculus) orbicularis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Pseudodon (Monodontina) orbicularis — Haas (1920) Pseudodon (Monodontina) cambodjensis — Haas (1969) Pseudodon cambodjensis cambodjensis — Brandt (1974) Pseudodon cambodjensis — IUCN (2011), Bolotov et al. (2023), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025) Monodontina cambodjensis — Bolotov et al. (2020) Pseudodon vondembuschianus — Zieritz et al. (2026) | |
Unio vonbuschea Sowerby, 1866
‘Lea MS’ Sowerby, 1866. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 51, sp. 269 [as ‘Unio Von Buschea’].
Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschianus — Simpson (1900) Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschiana — Preston (1912), Simpson (1914) Pseudodon (Monodontina) vondembuschianus — Haas (1920) | |
Microcondylaea hageni Strubell, 1897
Strubell, 1897. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 29: 8. Type(s): TYPE SMF_3580, S. Sumatra.
Unio hageni — Martens (1900) Nodularia (s.s.) hageni — Simpson (1914) Pseudodon (Bineurus) hageni — Haas (1920), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007) Pseudodon hageni — Bogan (2010), Zieritz et al. (2018) Monodontina vondembuschiana — Bolotov et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021) Pseudodon vondembuschianus vondembuschianus — Bolotov et al. (2023) Pseudodon vondembuschianus — Zieritz et al. (2026) | |
Monocondylaea rhombica Simpson, 1900 ‘Küster’ of Authors. Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 836. Preston, 1912. Rec. Ind. Mus. 7: 295. (error for Monocondylaea rhomboidea Küster, 1862) | |
Pseudodon (Trigonodon) crebristriatus Suvatti, 1950 Suvatti, 1950. Fauna Thailand: 109. (misidentified reference to Monocondyloea crebristriata Anthony, 1865)
Pseudodon vondembuschianus ellipticus — Brandt (1974) | |
Pseudodon cambodjensis Pfeiffer & Graf, 2013
‘Petit’ of Authors. Pfeiffer & Graf, 2013. J. Moll. Studies 79: 251. Pfeiffer & Graf, 2015. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 175(2): 310. Zieritz et al., 2016. Sci. Total Environ. 571: 1071. Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1. Bolotov et al., 2017. Sci. Repts. 7: Table S1 [as ‘Monodontina cambodjensis’]. Lopes-Lima et al., 2017. MPE 106: 177. Konopleva et al., 2017. Systemat. Biodiv. 15(3): 207. Bolotov et al., 2018. Sci. Repts. 8: Table S1 [as ‘Monodontina cambodjensis’]. Razak et al., 2018. Conserv. Genet. Resour. 11: 459. Huang et al., 2019. MPE 130: Table S4 [as ‘Monodontina cambodjensis’]. Konopleva et al., 2019. Sci. Repts. 9: Table S1 [as ‘Monodontina cambodjensis’]. Bolotov et al., 2020. Sci. Repts. 10: Table S1 [as ‘Monodontina cambodiensis’ (sic)]. Konopleva et al., 2021. Sci. Repts. 11: Table S1 [as ‘Monodontina cambodiensis’ (sic)]. Jeratthitikul et al., 2021. Eur. J. Taxonomy 775: 123 [as ‘Monodontina cambodiensis’ (sic)]. Pfeiffer et al., 2021. Invert. Syst. 35: 453 [as ‘Monodontina cambodjensis’]. Wu et al., 2021. ZooKeys 1054: 87 [as ‘Monodontina cambodjensis’]. Wu et al., 2021. J. Lake Sci. 33(6): attached Table 1. Konopleva et al., 2023. Diversity 15(1), 10: Table S2 [as ‘Monodontina cambodjensis’]. Dai et al., 2023. Invert. Syst. 37(2): Table 1 [as ‘Monodontina cambodjensis’]. Dai et al., 2024. Zoosyst. Evol. 100(4): Table 2. Dai et al., 2025. Zoosyst. Evol. 101(2): Table 1. (reference to Monocondylea cambodjensis Petit de la Saussaye, 1865) Type(s): SEQUENCED SPECIMEN UMMZ_304350, Pursat River, just downstream (north) of Highway 5 bridge, Pursat City, Cambodia.
Pseudodon vagulus — Bolotov et al. (2023) Pseudodon cambodjensis — Jeratthitikul et al. (2025) | |
Monodontina cambodiensis Bolotov et al., 2020 ‘Petit’ of Authors. Bolotov et al., 2020. Sci. Repts. 10: Table S1. Konopleva et al., 2021. Sci. Repts. 11: Table S1. Jeratthitikul et al., 2021. Eur. J. Taxonomy 775: 123. (error for Monocondylea cambodjensis Petit de la Saussaye, 1865) | |
Pseudodon vagulus Bolotov et al., 2023 ‘Fischer’ of Authors. Bolotov et al., 2023. Water 15: Dataset S1. Jeratthitikul et al., 2024. Zoosyst. Evol. 100(4): Table S1. Zieritz et al., 2024. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 201, zlae076: Table S4. Jeratthitikul et al., 2025. ZooKeys 1224: Table S1. Konopleva et al., 2025. Ecologica Montenegrina 88: Supplementary Dataset 1. (misidentified reference to Unio vagulus Fischer, 1891)
Pseudodon cambodjensis — Jeratthitikul et al. (2025) | |
Margaritana vondenbuschiana Lea, 1840 Lea, 1840. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1: 288.
Lea, 1842. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 222, pl. 18, fig. 39. Lea, 1852. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 45. Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 501. (incorrect original spelling of Margaritana vondembuschiana Lea, 1840)
Margaritana vondenbuschiana — de Gregorio (1914) Pseudodon vondenbuschianus — van Benthem Jutting (1953) | |
Alasmodonta vandembuschiana Mousson, 1849 Mousson, 1849. Land-Süßw.-Moll. Java: 97. (error for Margaritana vondembuschiana Lea, 1840)
Pseudodon vondenbuschianus — van Benthem Jutting (1953) Pseudodon vondembuschianus — IUCN (2012) | |
Alasmodonta zollingeri form angulosa Mousson, 1849
Mousson, 1849. Land-Süßw.-Moll. Java: 96, pl. 18, fig. 2. [infra-subsp.] (intro'd as intra-sp. of Alasmodonta zollingeri Mousson, 1849)
Pseudodon vondenbuschianus — van Benthem Jutting (1953) | |
Alasmodonta zollingeri form vulgaris Mousson, 1849
Mousson, 1849. Land-Süßw.-Moll. Java: 96, pl. 18, fig. 1. [infra-subsp.] (intro'd as intra-sp. of Alasmodonta zollingeri Mousson, 1849)
Pseudodon vondenbuschianus — van Benthem Jutting (1953) | |
Monocondylaea rhomboidea Küster, 1862
‘Lea’ Küster, 1862. Conchyl. Cab. 9(2): 304, pl. 100, fig. 7. (misidentified reference to Monocondyloea rhomboidea Lea, 1859)
Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschianus — Simpson (1900) Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschiana — Preston (1912), Simpson (1914) Pseudodon (Monodontina) vondembuschianus — Haas (1920) | |
Monocondylaea cambojensis Conrad, 1865 ‘Petit’ Conrad, 1865. Amer. J. Conch. 1: 233. (error for Monocondylea cambodjensis Petit de la Saussaye, 1865)
Pseudodon (s.s.) cambodjensis — Preston (1912) | |
Unio lamellatus Hanley & Theobald, 1870
Hanley & Theobald, 1870. Conch. Indica (1): 5, pl. 9, fig. 6. (misidentified reference to Unio lamellatus Lea, 1838)
Hyriopsis (s.s.) vagulus — Simpson (1900) Hyriopsis (s.s.) vagula — Simpson (1914) Pseudodon (Monodontina) cambodjensis — Haas (1920), Haas (1969) | |
Monocondylea cambodgensis Morlet, 1889 ‘Petit’ Morlet, 1889. J. de Conch. 37: 165. (error for Monocondylea cambodjensis Petit de la Saussaye, 1865)
Pseudodon cambodjensis cambodjensis — Brandt (1974) | |
Unio trinilensis Dubois, 1908 Dubois, 1908. unknown publication: ??.
Pseudodon vondembuschianus trinilensis — Bolotov et al. (2023) Pseudodon vondembuschianus — Zieritz et al. (2026) | |
Pseudodon (Trigonodon) vandervlerki Oostingh, 1935 Oostingh, 1935. unknown publication: ??.
Pseudodon vondembuschianus vandervlerki — Bolotov et al. (2023) Pseudodon vondembuschianus — Zieritz et al. (2026) | |
Pseudodon vondembuchsiana Subba Rao, 1989 Subba Rao, 1989. Freshw. Moll. India: figs. 440-441 caption. (error for Margaritana vondembuschiana Lea, 1840) | |
Taxonomic History (since 1900)Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschianus — Simpson (1900), Thiele (1934) Pseudodon vondembuschianus — Martens (1900), Brandt (1974), Graf (2002), Graf & Cummings (2006), Walker et al. (2006), ... Chen et al. (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Zieritz et al. (2026) Pseudodon (s.s.) zollingeri — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Pseudodon (s.s.) cambodjensis — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914) Pseudodon (sec. Suborbiculus) orbicularis — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914) Hyriopsis (s.s.) vagulus — Simpson (1900) Unio hageni — Martens (1900) Pseudodon (s.s.) vondembuschiana — Preston (1912), Simpson (1914) Margaritana vondenbuschiana — de Gregorio (1914) Hyriopsis (s.s.) vagula — Simpson (1914) Nodularia (s.s.) hageni — Simpson (1914) Monodontina vondembuschiana — Prashad (1919), Bolotov et al. (2017), Huang et al. (2019), Froufe et al. (2019), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), ... Dai et al. (2023), Jeratthitikul & Sutcharit (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025) Pseudodon (Monodontina) vondembuschianus — Haas (1920), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007) Pseudodon (Monodontina) zollingeri — Haas (1920) Pseudodon (Monodontina) cambodjensis — Haas (1920), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007) Pseudodon (Monodontina) orbicularis — Haas (1920) Pseudodon (Bineurus) hageni — Haas (1920), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007) Pseudodon vondenbuschianus — van Benthem Jutting (1953) — Haas (1969), Subba Rao (1989) Pseudodon cambodjensis cambodjensis — Brandt (1974) Pseudodon vondembuschianus ellipticus — Brandt (1974) Pseudodon vondenbuschianus [sic] — Marwoto (1987) Pseudodon cambodjensis — Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), Pfeiffer & Graf (2013), Pfeiffer & Graf (2015), Zieritz et al. (2016), ... Dai et al. (2025), Konopleva et al. (2025), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026) Pseudodon hageni — Bogan (2010), Zieritz et al. (2018) Pseudodon aff. vondembuschianus sp. 1 — Bolotov et al. (2017) Pseudodon aff. vondembuschianus sp. 2 — Bolotov et al. (2017) Monodontina aff. vondembuschiana sp. 1 — Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Konopleva et al. (2019), Huang et al. (2019), Lopes-Lima et al. (2020) Monodontina aff. vondembuschiana sp. 2 — Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2019) Monodontina cambodjensis — Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020), Ng et al. (2020), Pfeiffer et al. (2021), Graf & Cummings (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Konopleva et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2023) Pseudodon vondembuschiana — Pfeiffer et al. (2018) Monodontina cambodiensis [sic] — Konopleva et al. (2021), Jeratthitikul et al. (2021) Monodontina vondembuschiana vondembuschiana — Konopleva et al. (2023) Pseudodon vondembuschianus vondembuschianus — Bolotov et al. (2023), Jeratthitikul et al. (2024), Jeratthitikul et al. (2025) Pseudodon vondembuschianus trinilensis — Bolotov et al. (2023) Pseudodon vondembuschianus vandervlerki — Bolotov et al. (2023) Pseudodon vagulus — Bolotov et al. (2023) Pseudodon vond. vondembuschianus — Zieritz et al. (2024) Pseudodon v. vondembuschianus — Konopleva et al. (2025)
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