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 | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini
genus Cyprogenia Agassiz, 1852: synonymy
2 Recent freshwater species (2 total species)
Synonymy
Cyprogenia Agassiz, 1852
Agassiz, 1852. Arch. Naturg. 18(1): 47.
Type species: Unio irroratus Lea, 1828 (orig. desig.) = Cyprogenia stegaria
Crypogenia Fischer, 1886
(error for Cyprogenia Agassiz, 1852)
‘Agassiz’ Fischer, 1886. Manuel Conchyl. (10): 1000.
Type species: Unio irroratus Lea, 1828 = Cyprogenia stegaria
Cryptogenia Ortmann, 1909
(error for Cyprogenia Agassiz, 1852)
Ortmann, 1909. Nautilus 22(9): 93.
Type species: Unio irroratus Lea, 1828 = Cyprogenia stegaria
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Cyprogenia, since 1900.
Cyprogenia — Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1909), Ortmann (1912), Simpson (1914), ... FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025), Nagel (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Unio (s.s.) — Call (1900)
Cryptogenia [sic] — Ortmann (1909)
Unio — de Gregorio (1914)
