Bivalvia | Venerida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenoididae | Geloina coaxans

nominal species Venus ceylonica Martini & Chemnitz, 1782

Venus ceylonica Martini & Chemnitz, 1782 = Geloina coaxans

specimen image from publicationMartini & Chemnitz, 1782. Conchyl. Cab. 6: 333, pl. 32, fig. 336. [non-binomial]

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Geloina erosa (Lightfoot, 1786) — He & Zhuang, 2013: 158.

+ Polymesoda (Geloina) erosa (Solander, 1786) — Morton, 1984: 80.

= Polymesoda ceylonica Chemnitz — Hadl, 1976: 439, pls. 2-3, figs. 3-4.

+ Polymesoda (Geloina) coaxans (Gmelin, 1791) — Brandt, 1974: 309.

= Cyrena ceylonica Lamarck — Prime, 1895: 24.

+ Cyrena ceylanica [sic] Lamarck — Clessin, 1877: 102.

= Cyrena ceylonica Lamarck — Prime, 1870: 143.

+ Cyrena zeylanica — Lamarck, 1818: 554’.

+ Cyclas zeylanica n. — Lamarck, 1806: 420.