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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Iridinidae | Iridininae genus Pleiodon Conrad, 1834: synonymy 2 Recent valid species (7 total species) Pleiodon Conrad, 1834 Conrad, 1834. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 7(1): 178. Conrad, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 267. (renamed Pliodon Agassiz, 1846) Type species: Pleiodon macmurtriei Conrad, 1834 (monotypy) = Pleiodon ovatus Cameronia Bourguignat, 1879 Bourguignat, 1879. Descr. Div. Espèces Terr. Fluv. Diff. Genres Moll. Égypte, Abyssinie, Zanzibar, Sénégal, Centre Afrique: 42. Bourguignat, 1883. Moll. Fluv. Nyanza: 19. Bourguignat, 1885. Notice Prodr. Moll. Giraud Tanganika: 106. Bourguignat, 1886. Nouv. Malac.: Unio. Iridin. Lac Tanganika: 66. Bourguignat, 1886. Esp. Nouv. et Genres Nouv. Lac Oukékérewe et Tanganika: 26. Bourguignat, 1888. Iconogr. Malac. Lac Tanganika: 67. Type species: Iridina (Pleiodon) spekii Woodward, 1859 (orig. desig.) = Pleiodon spekii Pleodon Swainson, 1840 Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 286, footnote. (error for Pleiodon Conrad, 1834) Pliodon Agassiz, 1846 Agassiz, 1846. Nomencl. Zool. Index Univ.: 299. (new name for Pleiodon Conrad, 1834) Taxonomic History (since 1900)Pleiodon (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Pain & Woodward (1964) Pleiodon (Cameronia) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Pain & Woodward (1964) Pleiodon — E.A. Smith (1904), E.A. Smith (1906), Kobelt (1910), Simpson (1914), Kat (1987), ... IUCN (2010), Van Damme & Pickford (2010), Graf & Cummings (2011), Zieritz et al. (2013), Graf & Cummings (2021) Cameronia — Kobelt (1910) Iridina (Pleiodon) — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969) Iridina (Cameronia) — Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Leloup (1950), Haas (1969), Haas (1969) Iridina (sec. Pliodon) — Thiele (1934) Iridina (sec. Cameronia) — Thiele (1934) Mutela — Mandahl-Barth (1988), Daget (1998), IUCN (2010) Iridina — Graf (2000), Van Damme & Pickford (2010)
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