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genus Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811: synonymy

89 Recent freshwater species (95 total species)

Synonymy

Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811

Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811. Mag. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berlin 5: 56.
(renamed Cyanocyclas Blainville, 1818)
Type species: Tellina fluminalis Müller, 1774 (monotypy) = Corbicula fluminalis

Cyrena Lamarck, 1818

Lamarck, 1818. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 5: 551’ [2nd page 551].
Type species: Cyrena cor Lamarck, 1818 (sub. desig. by Children, 1823) = Corbicula fluminalis

Venulites Schloth, 1820

Schloth, 1820. Petref.: 200.

Cyrene Schlüter, 1838

Schlüter, 1838. Kurzgef. Syst. Verz. Conch. Samml.: 34.
(error for Cyrena Lamarck, 1818)

Cyrnea Deshayes, 1858

Deshayes, 1858. Descr. Anim. s. Vert. Bassin Paris 1: 484.
(error for Cyrena Lamarck, 1818)

Corbulica Chenu, 1862

Chenu, 1862. Manuel Conchyl. 2: 102.
(error for Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811)

Cirene Costa, 1866

Costa, 1866. Atti Acad. Sci. Fis. Nat. Soc. Napoli 3: 27.
(error for Cyrena Lamarck, 1818)

Cirena Sacco, 1887

Sacco, 1887. Boll. Soc. Malac. Ital. 12: 142.
(error for Cyrena Lamarck, 1818)

Corbiculina Dall, 1903

Dall, 1903. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 16: 6.
Dall, 1903. Trans. Wagner Free Inst. 3(6): 1449.
Type species: Corbicula angasi Prime, 1864 = Corbicula australis

Cyrenodonax Dall, 1903

Dall, 1903. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 16: 6.
Dall, 1903. Trans. Wagner Free Inst. 3(6): 1450.
Type species: Corbicula (Cyrenodonax) formosana Dall, 1903 = Corbicula formosana

Corbiculla Dalgliesh, 1907

Dalgliesh, 1907. Jour. Bombay nat. Hist. 17: 956.
(error for Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811)

Gyrena de Gregorio, 1930

de Gregorio, 1930. Ann. Géol. Paléont., livr. 53: 29.
(error for Cyrena Lamarck, 1818)

Serrilaminula Lindholm, 1933

Lindholm, 1933. Arch. Moll. 65: 268.
Type species: Corbicula minima Clessin in Martens, 1874 (monotypy) = Corbicula fluminalis

Posostrea Bogan & Bouchet, 1998

Bogan & Bouchet, 1998. Hydrobiologia 389: 132.
Type species: Posostrea anomioides Bogan & Bouchet, 1998 (monotypy) = Corbicula anomioides

Cernodonax Vinarski & Kantor, 2016

‘Dall’ Vinarski & Kantor, 2016. Analyt. Cat. Fr. Brack. Moll. Russia: 80.
(error for Cyrenodonax Dall, 1903)
Type species: Corbicula (Cyrenodonax) formosana Dall, 1903 = Corbicula formosana

Sphaerocorbicula Bespalaya et al., 2025

Bolotov, Bespalaya & Aksenova in Bespalaya et al., 2025. Zool. Scripta: 8, Table 1.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811)
Type species: Sphaerium avanum Theobald, 1873 (orig. desig.) = Corbicula avana

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Corbicula — Martens (1900), E.A. Smith (1904), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Martens (1905), Bullen (1906), ... Wu et al. (2023), Torres et al. (2024), FMCS (2025), Huang et al. (2025), Ponder et al. (2025)
Corbicula (s.s.) — Dall (1903), Thiele (1934), Huber (2015), Bespalaya et al. (2025)
Corbicula (s.s. sec. Corbiculina) — Dall (1903)
Corbicula (s.s. sec. Cyrenodonax) — Dall (1903)
Corbicula (Corbiculina) — Thiele (1934), B.J. Smith (1992)
Corbicula (Cyrenodonax) — Thiele (1934)
Sphaerium (s.s.) — Subba Rao (1989)
Posostrea — Bogan & Bouchet (1998), Rintelen & Glaubrecht (2005)
Sphaerium — Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011)
Corbicula (Sphaerocorbicula) — Bespalaya et al. (2025)