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Data last updated
Mon 1 Dec 2025

Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenoididae

genus Polymesoda Rafinesque, 1820: species

9 available nominal genus synonyms (10 total synonyms) | cladomics

Included Species

Decorative image of a representative of Polymesoda solida

Polymesoda solida (Philippi, 1846)

syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Venezuela and Colombia. (South America)

Decorative image of a representative of Polymesoda altilis

Polymesoda altilis (Gould, 1852) (brackish)

syonymy (2 available, 3 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Brackish, Mazatlan, Mexico. (Central America)

Decorative image of a representative of Polymesoda anomala

Polymesoda anomala (Deshayes, 1854) (brackish)

syonymy (3 available, 3 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Brackish, El Salvador to northern Peru. (Central America, South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Polymesoda arctata

Polymesoda arctata (Deshayes, 1854) (brackish)

syonymy (7 available, 7 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Polymesoda boliviana (Philippi, 1851) (brackish)

syonymy (3 available, 3 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Brackish, Panama to Ecuador. (Central America, South America)

Decorative image of a representative of Polymesoda caroliniana

Polymesoda caroliniana (Bosc, 1801) (brackish)

syonymy (2 available, 6 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Brackish, Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic north to Virginia. (North America)

Genbank sequences: 16S, 18S, 28S, COI, mtGenome
NatureServe: G5
other links: MolluscaBase

Polymesoda cordata (Martens, 1865) (brackish)

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Brackish, Mexico. (Central America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Polymesoda floridana

Polymesoda floridana (Conrad, 1846) (brackish)

syonymy (5 available, 5 total) | specimens (1)

Range: Brackish, Caribbean. (Central America, South America)

Genbank sequences: 28S, mtGenome
other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Polymesoda fontainei

Polymesoda fontainei (d’Orbigny, 1846) (brackish)

syonymy (4 available, 5 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Brackish, Ecuador. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Polymesoda inflata

Polymesoda inflata (Philippi, 1851) (brackish)

syonymy (11 available, 13 total) | specimens (1)

Range: Brackish, Mexico south to Peru. (Central America, South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Polymesoda meridionalis

Polymesoda meridionalis (Prime, 1865) (brackish)

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Brackish, Peru. (South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Polymesoda mexicana

Polymesoda mexicana (Broderip & Sowerby, 1829) (brackish)

syonymy (6 available, 7 total) | specimens (3)

Range: Brackish, Pacific coast of Mexico. (North America, Central America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Polymesoda notabilis (Deshayes, 1854) (brackish)

syonymy (3 available, 3 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Brackish, Coast Rica south to northern Peru. (Central America, South America)

other links: MolluscaBase

Decorative image of a representative of Polymesoda salmacida

Polymesoda salmacida (Morelet, 1851) (brackish)

syonymy (2 available, 2 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Brackish, Yucatan. (Central America)

Polymesoda zuila H.B. Baker, 1930 (brackish)

syonymy (1 available, 1 total) | specimens (0)

Range: Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. (South America)

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