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genus Pletholophus Simpson, 1900: synonymy

4 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)

Synonymy

Pletholophus Simpson, 1900

Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 585.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 229.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Cristaria Schumacher, 1817)
Type species: Symphynota discoidea Lea, 1834 (original designation) = Pletholophus tenuis

Pletolophus Starobogatov, 1970

‘Simpson’ Starobogatov, 1970. Fauna Moll. Continent.: 67.
‘Simpson’ Prozorova et al., 2005. Byull. Dal'nev. Malak.Obshch. 9: 55.
(error for Pletholophus Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Symphynota discoidea Lea, 1834 = Pletholophus tenuis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Cristaria (Pletholophus) — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Kuroda (1941), Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Heard (1977)
Dalliella — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912)
Anodonta — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Cristaria — Martens (1905), Wu (1982), Hu (2005), Sayenko et al. (2005), Graf (2007), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012), Xiong et al. (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Kano et al. (2019), Hata et al. (2022)
Simpsonella — Simpson (1914)
Unio — Simpson (1914)
Cristaria (sec. Pletholophus) — Thiele (1934)
Pletholophus — Modell (1945), Habe (1977), Dang et al. (1980), Lopes-Lima et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2017), ... Wang et al. (2025), Dai et al. (2026), Chen et al. (2026), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
Anodonta (Sinanodonta) — Habe (1977)
Pletolophus [sic] — Prozorova et al. (2005)
Sinanodonta — Bogatov & Prozorova (2017)