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Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenoididae | Polymesoda arctata

nominal species Cyrena ordinaria Prime, 1865

Cyrena ordinaria Prime, 1865 = Polymesoda arctata

specimen image from publicationPrime, 1865. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. (145): 19, fig. 15.

= Polymesoda arctata

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Polymesoda arctata (Deshayes, 1854) — WoRMS, 2012

= Neocyrena ordinaria (Prime) — OBIS, 2012

= Cyanocyclas ordinaria (Prime, 1865) — Simone, 2006

= Polymesoda (Neocyrena) ordinaria (Prime, 1865) — Keen, 1971

= Cyrena ordinaria Prime — Clessin, 1877

= Cyrena ordinaria Prime — Prime, 1865

 
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