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genus Obliquaria Rafinesque, 1820: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)

Synonymy

Obliquaria Rafinesque, 1820

Rafinesque, 1820. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 301.
Rafinesque, 1831. Continuation: 3.
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 46, 75.
Type species: Obliquaria (Quadrula) reflexa Rafinesque, 1820 (sub. desig. by Simpson, 1900: 610) = Obliquaria reflexa

Oblicaria d’Orbigny, 1846

d’Orbigny, 1846. Dict. Univ. Hist. Nat. 8: 709.
(error for Obliquaria Rafinesque, 1820)
Type species: Obliquaria (Quadrula) reflexa Rafinesque, 1820 = Obliquaria reflexa

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Obliquaria, since 1900.

Obliquaria — Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1910), Ortmann (1912), Simpson (1914), ... Hauck et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Freeman et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Unio (s.s.) — Call (1900)
Pleurobema (Plethobasus) — Frierson (1927)
Plethobasus — Haas (1969)
Dysnomia — Burch (1975)
Epioblasma — Cummings & Mayer (1997), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Cicerello & Schuster (2003), Watters et al. (2009)