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 | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Hyriinae | Rhipidodontini
genus Iridea Swainson, 1840: synonymy
1 Recent freshwater species (1 total species)
Synonymy
Iridea Swainson, 1840
Swainson, 1840. Treat. Malacol.: 283-285, 379.
Type species: Unio granosa Bruguière, 1792 (monotypy) = Iridea granosa
Iridella Haas, 1969
(error for Iridea Swainson, 1840)
‘Swainson’ Haas, 1969. Treatise on Invert. Paleo Part N (1): N460.
Type species: Unio granosa Bruguière, 1792 = Iridea granosa
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Iridea, since 1900.
Diplodon (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Ortmann (1921), Haas (1931), Morretes (1949), Bonetto (1964), Bonetto (1965), Haas (1969), Martinez et al. (2004), Rumi et al. (2008), Pereira et al. (2014)
Diplodon (s.s.) (Group of D. granosus) — Simpson (1914)
Hyridella — Haas (1930)
Diplodon — Parodiz (1968), Simone (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), Lasso et al. (2009), Bogan (2010), Massemin et al. (2010), IUCN (2011), Mansur et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Iridea — Prié et al. (2026)
