Gibbosula Simpson, 1900
Simpson, 1900, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 804.
Simpson, 1914, Descr. Cat. Naiades: 941.
Type species: Mya crassa Wood, 1815 (original designation) = Gibbosula crassa

Margaritanopsis Haas, 1910
Haas, 1910, Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 42): pl. 12.
Haas, 1912, Conch. Cab. 9 (pt. 2, h. 46): 121.
Haas, 1913, Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 45: 33.
Type species: Unio laosensis Lea, 1863 (monotypy) = Gibbosula laosensis

Odhnerella Modell, 1964
Modell, 1964, Arch. Moll. 93: 111.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Lamprotula Simpson, 1900)
Type species: Unio rochechouartii Heude, 1875 (orig. desig.) = Gibbosula rochechouartii

Margaritinopsis D.G. Smith, 2001
D.G. Smith, 2001, [in] Bauer & Wächtler, Ecol. Evol. Unionoida 145: 42.
(error for Margaritanopsis Haas, 1910)

Gipposula Prozorova et al., 2005
‘Simpson’ Prozorova et al., 2005, Byull. Dal'nev. Malak.Obshch. 9: 52.
(error for Gibbosula Simpson, 1900)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Margaritana — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Gibbosula — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914), Frierson (1928), Dang et al. (1980), ..., Bogan et al. (2023), Chen et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Dai et al. (2024)
Unio (Quadrula) — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1908)
Margaritanopsis — Haas (1912), Prashad (1922), Haas (1924), Brandt (1974), D.G. Smith (2001), Kittivorachate & Yangyuen (2004)
— de Gregorio (1914), Prashad (1922), Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Bolotov et al. (2019)
Margaritifera (Margaritanopsis) — Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Subba Rao (1989), Bolotov et al. (2016)
Lamprotula — Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Hu (2005), Prozorova et al. (2005), ..., Xiong et al. (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Pfeiffer & Graf (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018)
Margaritifera — Ziuganov et al. (1994), Graf & Cummings (2007), Araujo et al. (2009), Bogan (2010), ..., Bolotov et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Sano et al. (2020)
Lamprotula (Odhnerella) — Yu et al. (2001)
Gipposula [sic] — Prozorova et al. (2005)