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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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species cyrenid species __: synonymy
     5 specimens

Cyclas australis Lamarck, 1818
Lamarck, 1818. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 5: 560.

Pisidium australevan Benthem Jutting (1931)
Corbicula australisDjajasasmita (1977), Glaubrecht et al. (2003), Rintelen & Glaubrecht (2005)
Kuiper (1983)

Cyrena oblonga Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
Quoy & Gaimard, 1835. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. 3(2): pl. 82, figs. 6-8.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3525, Vanikoro.

Cyrena vanikorensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
Quoy & Gaimard, 1835. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. 3(2): pl. 82, fig. 4-5.
Type(s): TYPES MNHN_MP_3558, Vanikoro.

Cyrena buschii Philippi, 1848
Philippi, 1848. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 78, pl. 2, fig. 2.

Cyrena suborbicularis Philippi, 1848
‘v. d. Busch’ Philippi, 1848. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 77, pl. 2, fig. 1.

Geloina suborbicularisOBIS (2012)

Cyrena triangularis Metcalfe, 1852
Metcalfe, 1852. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1851: 74.

Cyrena compta Deshayes, 1855
Deshayes, 1855. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 22: 18, sp. 24.

Cyrena conjuncta Deshayes, 1855
Deshayes, 1855. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 22: 15, sp. 11.

Cyrena divaricata Deshayes, 1855
Deshayes, 1855. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 22: 17, sp. 20.

Cyrena incerta Deshayes, 1855
Deshayes, 1855. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 22: 19, sp. 25.

Cyrena inquinata Deshayes, 1855
Deshayes, 1855. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 22: 15, sp. 9.

Cyrena lauta Deshayes, 1855
Deshayes, 1855. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 22: 15, sp. 12.

Cyrena mactroides Deshayes, 1855
Deshayes, 1855. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 22: 17, sp. 17.
(renamed Cyrena mactraeformis Prime, 1860)

Cyrena pallida Deshayes, 1855
Deshayes, 1855. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 22: 17, sp. 19.

Cyrena sublobata Deshayes, 1855
Deshayes, 1855. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 22: 18, sp. 21.

Cyrena caledonica Gassies, 1857
Gassies, 1857. J. de Conch. 6: 277.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3437, Nouvelle Calédonie [New Caledonia].

Cyrena tennentii Hanley, 1858
Hanley, 1858. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1858: 23.

Cyrena brunnea Prime, 1860
Prime, 1860. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 28: 321.

Cyrena flava Prime, 1860
Prime, 1860. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 28: 320.

Cyrena mactraeformis Prime, 1860
Prime, 1860. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 12: 281 [as ‘mactræformis’].
(new name for Cyrena mactroides Deshayes, 1855)

Cyrena ponderosa Prime, 1860
Prime, 1860. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 12: 80.
Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 87, fig. 36.

Cyrena sphaerica Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. J. de Conch. 9: 354 [as ‘sphærica’].
Prime, 1862. J. de Conch. 10: 386, pl. 13, fig. 2 [as ‘sphærica’].

Cyrena colorata Prime, 1865
Prime, 1865. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. (145): 30, fig. 23.

Cyrena moerchiana Prime, 1866
Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 232, fig. 63 [as ‘mörchiana’].

Cyrena mactriformis Prime, 1870
Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 145.
‘Prime’ Clessin, 1879. Conch. Cab. 9(3): 237.
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 29.
(error for Cyrena mactraeformis Prime, 1860)

Corbicula crocea Temcharoen, 1971
Temcharoen, 1971. Arch. Moll. 101: 106, pl. 7, fig. 17.
Type(s): PARATYPES MNHN_MP_3514, Laos: Huai Chompou near Paksong, east of Paksé.

Corbicula croceaMorton (1986)

Cyrena morchiana Prime, 1870
Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 145.
(error for Cyrena moerchiana Prime, 1866)

Cyrena tennetii Clessin, 1879
‘Hanley’ Clessin, 1879. Conch. Cab. 9(3): 240.
(error for Cyrena tennentii Hanley, 1858)

Sinanodonta woodiana Heriansyah et al., 2020
Heriansyah et al., 2020. J. Aceh Aqua. Sci. 4(1): 43, gambar 1A.
(misidentified reference to Symphynota woodiana Lea, 1834)

Geloina sp.Bolotov et al. (2024)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Pisidium australevan Benthem Jutting (1931)
Corbicula australisDjajasasmita (1977), Glaubrecht et al. (2003), Rintelen & Glaubrecht (2005)
Kuiper (1983)
Corbicula croceaMorton (1986)
Geloina suborbicularisOBIS (2012)
Geloina sp.Bolotov et al. (2024)

 
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