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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

For each valid genus, the nominal generic synonyms are listed. The taxonomic history (since 1900) at the bottom of the page lists the genera to which all of the currently included species have been classified.

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Parreysiinae | Leoparreysiini

genus Leoparreysia Vikhrev, Bolotov & Aksenova in Bolotov et al., 2017: nominal genera
     9 valid species

Leoparreysia Bolotov et al., 2017
Vikhrev, Bolotov et Aksenova in Bolotov et al., 2017, Sci. Repts. 7: 2.
Type species: Leoparreysia canefrii Bolotov et al., 2017 (orig. desig.) = Leoparreysia canefrii

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Parreysia (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Preston (1912), Simpson (1914), Preston (1915), Subba Rao (1989), Graf & Cummings (2007), Ramakrishna & Dey (2007)
Unio — Simpson (1914), Connolly (1939)
Rhombuniopsis — Haas (1920), Haas (1924), Haas (1969), Moskvicheva & Starobogatov (1973), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), Liu et al. (2022)
Parreysia — Prashad (1922), Srinivasa Rao (1928), Haas (1969), Brandt (1974), ..., Konopleva et al. (2017), Zieritz et al. (2018), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Bieler (2021)
Indonaia — Connolly (1925), Connolly (1931), Haas (1936)
— Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927)
Afronaia — Haas (1969)
Uniandra — Brandt (1974), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012)
Caelatura [sic] — Mandahl-Barth (1988)
Coelatura — Daget (1998), Graf & Cummings (2011)
Contradens — Graf & Cummings (2007), Zieritz et al. (2018), Jeratthitikul et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2019), Konopleva et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021)
Leoparreysia — Bolotov et al. (2017), Bolotov et al. (2018), Pfeiffer et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), ..., Bolotov et al. (2022), Konopleva et al. (2023), Bolotov et al. (2024), Zieritz et al. (2024)
Radiatula — Huang et al. (2019), Ortiz-Sepulveda et al. (2020), Wu et al. (2021)

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