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genus Echyridella McMichael & Hiscock, 1958: synonymy

3 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)

Synonymy

Echyridella McMichael & Hiscock, 1958

McMichael & Hiscock, 1958. Austral. J. Mar. Frwtr. Res. 9(3): 459.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Hyridella Swainson, 1840)
Type species: Unio menziesii Gray, 1843 (orig. desig.) = Echyridella menziesii

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Diplodon (Hyridella s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Diplodon (Hyridella sec. Cucumaria) — Simpson (1914)
Hyridella — McMichael (1957), Graf & Ó Foighil (2000), Bogan & Hoeh (2000), Walker et al. (2001), Hoeh et al. (2001), ... Bogan (2010), Breton et al. (2011), Mitchell et al. (2016), Guerra et al. (2017), Huang et al. (2018)
Velesunio — McMichael (1957)
Hyridella (s.s.) — McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Ponder (1964), Haas (1969), Graf & Cummings (2007)
Hyridella (Echyridella) — McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Ponder (1964), Haas (1969), Santos-Neto et al. (2016), Wu et al. (2023)
Cucumerunio — McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Ponder (1964), Walker et al. (2001), Fenwick & Marshall (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2013)
Echyridella — Fenwick & Marshall (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2013), Walker et al. (2014), ... Wu et al. (2022), Wu et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)