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genus Cyrenoida de Joannis, 1835: synonymy

Synonymy

de Joannis, 1835. Mag. Zool. 5: pl. 64.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Cyrena Lamarck, 1818; renamed Cyrenella Deshayes, 1854)
Type species: Cyrenoida dupontia de Joannis, 1835 = Cyrenoida dupontia

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: ?, pl. 15, fig. 4.
(new name for Cyrenoida de Joannis, 1835)
Type species: Cyrenoida dupontia de Joannis, 1835 = Cyrenoida dupontia

Sowerby, 1839. Conch. Man.: 37.
(error for Cyrenoida de Joannis, 1835)
Type species: Cyrenoida dupontia de Joannis, 1835 = Cyrenoida dupontia

Hanley, 1843. Illustr. Descr. Cat. Rec. Bivalve Shells: 10.
(error for Cyrenoida de Joannis, 1835)
Type species: Cyrenoida dupontia de Joannis, 1835 = Cyrenoida dupontia

Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 240 [as ‘Cyrenodontæ’].
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 453.
(error for Cyrenoida de Joannis, 1835)
Type species: Cyrenoida dupontia de Joannis, 1835 = Cyrenoida dupontia

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

Cyrenoida — Dall & Simpson (1901), Dall (1901), Dall (1903), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), Thiele (1934), ... Combosch et al. (2017), Soroka et al. (2018), Kondakov et al. (2020), Czaja et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023)

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