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Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenoididae | Polymesoda solida

nominal species Cyrena nicaraguana Prime, 1870

Cyrena nicaraguana Prime, 1870 = Polymesoda solida

Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 146.
(new name for Cyrena solida Philippi, 1846)

= Polymesoda solida

Taxonomic Opinions

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

= Polymesoda (Neocyrena) nicaraguana (Prime, 1869) — Keen, 1971

= Neocyrena nicaraguana (Prime, 1869) — Olsson, 1961

+ Polymesoda (s.s.) solida (Philippi, 1846) — Martens, 1900

= Cyrena (Leptosiphon) nicaraguana T. Prime, 1869 — Fischer & Crosse, 1894

+ Cyrena solida Philippi — Clessin, 1877

= Cyrena nicaraguana Prime — Prime, 1870

 
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