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Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenoididae | Polymesoda caroliniana

nominal species Cyrena caroliniensis Lamarck, 1818

Cyrena caroliniensis Lamarck, 1818 = Polymesoda caroliniana

Lamarck, 1818. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 5: 553’ [2nd page 553].
(error for Cyclas caroliniana Bosc, 1801)

= Polymesoda caroliniana

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Cyrena (s.s. sec. Polymesoda) caroliniana Bosc — Dall, 1903

= Cyrena carolinensis [sic] Lamarck — Prime, 1895

= Cyrena carolinensis [sic] Lamarck — Clessin, 1877

= Cyrena caroliniensis [sic] Lamarck — Prime, 1870

= Cyrena caroliniensis Lamarck — Prime, 1865

= Cyrena caroliniensis Lamk. — Deshayes, 1854

+ Cyrena carolinensis [sic] (Bosc) — Philippi, 1848

+ Cyrena carolinensis [sic] Lam. — Hanley, 1843

 
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