MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
by Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
by Family
Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
by Geography
Bivalvia | Adapedonta | Solenoidea | Pharidae | Pharellinae
genus Novaculina Benson, 1830: synonymy
3 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)
Synonymy
Novaculina Benson, 1830
Benson, 1830. Glean. Sci. 2: 63.
Type species: Novaculina gangetica Benson, 1830 (monotypy) = Novaculina gangetica
Loncosilla Rafinesque, 1831
Rafinesque, 1831. Continuation: 7.
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 84.
Type species: Loncosilla solenoides Rafinesque, 1831 (monotypy) = Novaculina gangetica
Leucosilla Scudder, 1882
(error for Loncosilla Rafinesque, 1831)
‘Rafinesque’ of Authors.
Scudder, 1882. Nomen. Zool., Suppl.: 187. [nomen nudum]
Cox et al., 1969. Treatise on Invert. Paleo Part N (2): N862.
Williams et al., 2008. Freshw. Mussels AL and Mobile Basin: 102.
Type species: Loncosilla solenoides Rafinesque, 1831 = Novaculina gangetica
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Novaculina, since 1900.
Novaculina — Ghosh (1920), Subba Rao (1989), Nesemann et al. (2003), Nesemann et al. (2007), Bogan (2010), ... Kondakov et al. (2020), Win et al. (2021), Bolotov et al. (2022), Jeratthitikul & Sutcharit (2024), Huang et al. (2025)
