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

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genus Cyanocyclas Blainville, 1818: synonymy
     6 Recent valid species (6 total species)

Cyanocyclas Blainville, 1818
Blainville, 1818. Dict. Sci. Nat. 12: 280.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Cyclas Lamarck, 1799)
Type species: Tellina limosa Maton, 1811 (sub. desig. by Dall, 1903: 1450) = Cyanocyclas limosa

Cyrenocyclas Agassiz, 1845
Agassiz, 1845. Nom. Syst. Gen. Moll.: 26.
Agassiz, 1845. Nomen. Zool., Mollusc.: 114.
(error for Cyanocyclas Blainville, 1818)

Neocorbicula Fischer, 1887
Fischer, 1887. Manuel Conchyl.: 1092.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811)
Type species: Cyclas (Cyrena) variegata d’Orbigny, 1835 (orig. desig.) = Cyanocyclas limosa

Gyanocyclas Haas, 1925
Haas, 1925. Arch. Moll. 57: 287.
(error for Cyanocyclas Blainville, 1818)

Cynocyclas Lydeard & Cummings, 2019
‘Blainville’ Lydeard & Cummings, 2019. Freshw. Moll. Atlas: 19.
(error for Cyanocyclas Blainville, 1818)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

NeocorbiculaMartens (1900), Park & Ó Foighil (2000), Cooley & Ó Foighil (2000), Siripattrawan et al. (2000), Korniushin & Glaubrecht (2002), ... Rumi et al. (2008), Hedtke et al. (2008), Pigneur et al. (2014), Ituarte (2020), Bespalaya et al. (2023)
Corbicula (Cyanocyclas)Dall (1903), Marshall (1924), Marshall (1927), Thiele (1934)
Corbicula (Neocorbicula)H.B. Baker (1930)
CorbiculaContreras-Arquieta (2000), Gomes et al. (2016)
CyanocyclasSimone (2006), Mansur & Pereira (2006), Lasso et al. (2009), Bogan (2010), WoRMS (2011), Pereira et al. (2014), Wu et al. (2023), Czaja et al. (2023)

 
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