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Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenoididae | Polymesoda mexicana

nominal species Cyrena aequilatera Deshayes, 1854

Cyrena aequilatera Deshayes, 1854 = Polymesoda mexicana

Deshayes, 1854. Proc. Zool. Soc. London: 20, sp. 31 [as ‘æquilatera’].
(renamed Cyrena aequilateralis Deshayes, 1854)

= Polymesoda mexicana

Taxonomic Opinions

= Polymesoda aequilatera (Deshayes, 1854) — Pereira et al., 2014

= Polymesoda aequilatera (Desh.) — H.B. Baker, 1930

+ Martens, 1900

+ Cyrena (Leptosiphon) mexicana Broderip et Sowerby, 1829 — Fischer & Crosse, 1894

+ Cyrena mexicana Sowerby — Prime, 1870

+ Cyrena mexicana Sowerby — Prime, 1865

 
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