Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816
Schumacher, 1816, Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forhandl. Kjobehhaven 1816: 7 [as ‘Margartifera’].
(correct name for Margartifera Schumacher, 1816)
Type species: Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758 (monotypy) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Margartifera Schumacher, 1816
Schumacher, 1816, Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forhandl. Kjobehhaven 1816: 7.
(incorrect original spelling of Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816)

Margaritana Schumacher, 1817
Schumacher, 1817, Essai. Nouv. Syst.: 41, 123.
Type species: Margaritana fluviatilis Schumacher, 1817 (monotypy) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Damaris Swainson, 1823
‘Leach’ Swainson, 1823, Zool. Illustr. 3(1): pl. 160.
Gray, 1840, Synopt. Cont. Brit. Mus. 42nd ed.: 138, 150.
Leach, 1852, Syn. Moll. Gr. Brit.: 321.
Type species: Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758 (monotypy) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Margatifera Schumacher, 1823
Schumacher, 1823, Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forhandl. Kjobehhaven: 6.
(error for Margaritifera Schumacher, 1816)

Damalis Leach, 1847
Leach, 1847, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 20: 273.
(homonym of Fabricius, 1805 [Diptera]; error for Damaris Swainson, 1823)
Type species: Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758 (monotypy) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Unionidium Gray, 1851
Gray, 1851, List Brit. Animals Brit. Mus. (7): 105.
Type species: Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758 (monotypy) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Baphia Mörch, 1853
Meuschen, 1787, Mus. Gevers: 472 [as ‘Baphiæ’]. [nomen nudum]
‘Meusch. 1787’ Mörch, 1853, Cat. Conch. Yoldi 2: 48.
(homonym of Gray, 1847 [Malleidae]; intro'd as sub-gen. of Unio Retzius, 1788)
Type species: Mya margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758 (orig. desig.) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Danalis Mörch, 1853
Mörch, 1853, Cat. Conch. Yoldi 2: 48.
(intro'd as syn. of Baphia Mörch, 1853)

Margaritiferana Fagot, 1893
Fagot, 1893, Bull. Soc. Ramond 28: 258.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Margaritana Schumacher, 1817)
Type species: Unio elongata Lamarck, 1819 (monotypy) = Margaritifera margaritifera

Dahurinaia Starobogatov, 1970
Starobogatov, 1970, Fauna Moll. Continent.: 60, 282.
Type species: Unio (Alasm.) dahuricus Middendorff, 1850 (orig. desig.) = Margaritifera dahurica

Hungaramblema Starobogatov, 1970
Starobogatov, 1970, Fauna Moll. Continent.: 61, 283.
Type species: Margaritifera inaequiradiata hantkeni Modell, 1950 (orig. desig.) = Margaritifera hantkeni

Paraheudeana Starobogatov, 1970
Starobogatov, 1970, Fauna Moll. Continent.: 61, 283.
Type species: Unio valdensis Mantell, 1844 (orig. desig.) = Margaritifera valdensis

Schalienaia Starobogatov, 1970
Starobogatov, 1970, Fauna Moll. Continent.: 61, 283.
Type species: Unio hembeli Conrad, 1838 (orig. desig.) = Margaritifera hembeli

Kurilinaia Bogatov & Zatravkin, 1988
Zatravkin & Bogatov in Bogatov & Zatravkin, 1988, Trudy Zool. Inst. 187: 158.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Dahurinaia Starobogatov, 1970)
Type species: Dahurinaia kurilensis Zatravkin & Starobogatov, 1984 (original designation) = Margaritifera laevis

Pseudomargaritifera Ma, 1996
Ma, 1996, unknown publication: 420.
Type species: Pseudomargaritifera plana Ma, 1996 () = Margaritifera plana

Solenoides Ma, 1996
Ma, 1996, unknown publication: 422.
Type species: Solenaia tanggulaensis Zhang et al., 1979 () = Margaritifera tanggulaensis

Margaritiana Yang et al., 2014
Yang et al., 2014, mtDNA 26(5): 716.
(error for Margaritana Schumacher, 1817)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Margaritana — Simpson (1900), Rochebrune (1903), Kobelt (1904), Ortmann (1909), ..., Clench & Turner (1956), Zhadin (1965), Liu et al. (1979), Bába (2000)
Unio (sec. Lymnium) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Margaritana (Pseudunio) — Hannibal (1912)
— Hannibal (1912), Simpson (1914), Krebs et al. (2003)
Migranaja — Hannibal (1912)
Ptychorhynchus — Simpson (1914)
Margaritifera — Modell (1931), Henderson (1935), Mandahl-Barth (1938), Haas (1940), ..., Dai et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024)
Margaritana (s.s.) — Thiele (1934)
Unio — Henderson (1935), Kira (1954)
Cumberlandia — Modell (1957)
Margaritifera (Pseudunio) — Mongin (1963)
Margaritifera (s.s.) — Haas (1969), Haas (1969), Falkner et al. (2001), Falkner et al. (2002), Bolotov et al. (2016)
Dahurinaia — Starobogatov (1970), Moskvicheva (1973), Zatravkin (1983), Zatravkin & Bogatov (1987), ..., Takeuchi et al. (2015), Vinarski & Kantor (2016), Feng et al. (2016), Aunins et al. (2018)
Schalienaia — Starobogatov (1970)
Paraheudeana — Starobogatov (1970)
Hungaramblema — Starobogatov (1970)
Dahurinaia (s.s.) — Bogatov & Zatravkin (1988), Korniushin (1998)
Dahurinaia (Kurilinaia) — Bogatov & Zatravkin (1988), Korniushin (1998)
Margaritifera (Dahurinaia) — Habe (1991), Ziuganov et al. (1994)
Pseudunio — D.G. Smith (2001)
Margaritanopsis — D.G. Smith (2001)
Kurilinaia — Bogatov et al. (2003), Starobogatov et al. (2004), Kantor & Sysoev (2005), Kantor et al. (2010)
Pseudomargaritifera — Fang et al. (2009)
Solenoides — Fang et al. (2009)
Margaritiana [sic] — Yang et al. (2014)
Margaritifera? — Delvene et al. (2016)