Bivalvia | Venerida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenoididae

genus Cyanocyclas Blainville, 1818: synonymy

7 Recent freshwater species (7 total species)

Synonymy

Cyanocyclas Blainville, 1818

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

Cyrenocyclas Agassiz, 1845

(error for Cyanocyclas Blainville, 1818)
Agassiz, 1845. Nom. Syst. Gen. Moll.: 26.
Agassiz, 1845. Nomen. Zool., Mollusc.: 114.
Type species: Tellina limosa Maton, 1811 = Cyanocyclas limosa

Neocorbicula Fischer, 1887

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811)
Fischer, 1887. Manuel Conchyl. (11): 1092.
Type species: Cyclas (Cyrena) variegata d’Orbigny, 1835 (orig. desig.) = Cyanocyclas limosa

Gyanocyclas Haas, 1925

(error for Cyanocyclas Blainville, 1818)
Haas, 1925. Arch. Moll. 57: 287.
Type species: Tellina limosa Maton, 1811 = Cyanocyclas limosa

Cynocyclas Lydeard & Cummings, 2019

(error for Cyanocyclas Blainville, 1818)
‘Blainville’ Lydeard & Cummings, 2019. Freshw. Moll. Atlas: 19.
Type species: Tellina limosa Maton, 1811 = Cyanocyclas limosa

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Neocorbicula — Martens (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. (2024)
Corbicula (Cyanocyclas) — Dall (1903), Marshall (1924), Marshall (1927), Thiele (1934)
Corbicula (Neocorbicula) — H.B. Baker (1930)
Corbicula — Contreras-Arquieta (2000), Gomes et al. (2016)
Cyanocyclas — Simone (2006), Mansur & Pereira (2006), Lasso et al. (2009), Bogan (2010), WoRMS (2011), Pereira et al. (2014), Czaja et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Prié et al. (2026)