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Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenoididae

genus Geloina Gray, 1842: synonymy

1 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)

Synonymy

Geloina Gray, 1842

Gray, 1840. Synopt. Cont. Brit. Mus. 42nd ed.: 149. [nomen nudum]
Gray, 1842. Synopt. Cont. Brit. Mus. 44th ed.: 75.
Gray, 1847. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 15: 184.
Type species: Cyclas zeylanica Lamarck, 1806 (sub. desig. by Gray, 1847) = Geloina erosa

Gelonia Meek, 1876

Meek, 1876. Rept. U.S. Geol. Surv. Terr. (Hayden) 9: 157.
(error for Geloina Gray, 1842)
Type species: Cyclas zeylanica Lamarck, 1806 = Geloina erosa

Gelvina Clessin, 1877

‘Gray’ Clessin, 1877. Conch. Cab. 9(3): 101.
(error for Geloina Gray, 1842)
Type species: Cyclas zeylanica Lamarck, 1806 = Geloina erosa

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Cyrena (s.s.) — Dall (1903)
Cyrena (s.s. sec. Geloina) — Dall (1903)
Cyrena — Schepman (1919)
Polymesoda (Geloina) — Thiele (1934), Brandt (1974), Morton (1984), B.J. Smith (1992)
Polymesoda — van Benthem Jutting (1953), Hadl (1976), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012), OBIS (2012), He & Zhuang (2013)
Geloina — IUCN (2012), OBIS (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Liao et al. (2020), Sahidin et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2023)

 
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