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Bivalvia | Unionida | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Velesunioninae

genus Lortiella Modell, 1942: synonymy

3 Recent freshwater species (3 total species)

Synonymy

Lortiella Modell, 1942

Iredale, 1934. Austral. Zool. 8: 69.
Modell, 1942. Arch. Moll. 74(5/6): 178.
Iredale, 1943. Austral. Zool. 10: 190.
Type species: Mycetopus rugatus Sowerby, 1868 (sub. desig. by McMichael & Hiscock, 1958: 432) = Lortiella rugata

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Solenaia — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Lortiella — Iredale (1934), Modell (1942), Iredale (1943), McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Haas (1969), ... Bolotov et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Ponder et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Hyridella (Lortiella) — Haas (1969)

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