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genus Lamprotula Simpson, 1900: synonymy

17 Recent freshwater species (26 total species)

Synonymy

Lamprotula Simpson, 1900

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Quadrula Rafinesque, 1820)
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 796.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 913.
Type species: Chama plumbea Dillwyn, 1817 (orig. desig.) = Lamprotula plumbea

Parunio Ping, 1931

Ping, 1931. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 10: 236.
Type species: Parunio crassus Ping, 1931 (original designation) = Lamprotula crassa

Lamprotura Uwadi, 1934

(error for Lamprotula Simpson, 1900)
Uwadi, 1934. Jour. Geol. Soc. Tokyo 41: explanation to pl. 7.
Type species: Chama plumbea Dillwyn, 1817 = Lamprotula plumbea

Richthofenia Modell, 1964

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Lamprotula Simpson, 1900; renamed Sinolamprotula Gu, 1976; homonym of Kayser, 1883 (Brachiopoda))
Modell, 1964. Arch. Moll. 93: 110.
Type species: Unio leaii Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833 (orig. desig.) = Lamprotula leaii

Cuneolamprotula Gu, 1976

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Lamprotula Simpson, 1900)
Gu & Huang in Gu, 1976. Lamell. Foss. China: 319.
Type species: Unio bazini Heude, 1877 = Lamprotula bazini

Sinolamprotula Gu, 1976

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Lamprotula Simpson, 1900; new name for Richthofenia Modell, 1964)
Gu & Huang in Gu, 1976. Lamell. Foss. China: 324.

Richtofenia Vokes, 1980

(error for Richthofenia Modell, 1964)
‘Modell’ of Authors.
Vokes, 1980. Genera of the Bivalvia: 78.
Vaught, 1989. Class. Livinh Moll.: 121.
Millard, 2001. Class. Moll. (3): 1056.
Type species: Unio leaii Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833 = Lamprotula leaii

Iolamprotula Martinson, 1964

(error for Eolamprotula Gu [Ku], 1962)
Martinson, 1964. Colloque du Jurrassique 1962: 160.

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Quadrula (Lamprotula) — Simpson (1900)
Unio (Quadrula) — Martens (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) (Group of Q. plumbea) — Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) (Group of Q. nodulosa) — Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) (Group of Q. triclava) — Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) (Group of Q. bazini) — Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) (Group of Q. leai) — Simpson (1914)
Lamprotula — Haas (1920), Thiele (1934), Ueji (1934), Haas (1969), Kil (1976), ... Wu et al. (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Nahok et al. (2026), Wu et al. (2026), Li et al. (2026)
Lamprotula (Parunio) — Haas (1969), Yu et al. (2001)
Lamprotula (s.s.) — Haas (1969)
Lamprotula (Cuneolamprotula) — Yu et al. (2001), Fang et al. (2009)
Pronodularia — Kondo et al. (2007), Bogan (2010), Zieritz et al. (2018)
Lamprotula (Sinolamprotula) — Fang et al. (2009)
Aculamprotula — He & Zhuang (2013), Araujo et al. (2017)
L. — Sheng et al. (2014)
Gibbosula — WoRMS (2017), Zieritz et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021)