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

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Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenidae

genus Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811: synonymy
     90 Recent valid species (91 total species)

Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811
Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811. Mag. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berlin 5: 56.
(renamed Cyanocyclas Blainville, 1818)
Type species: Tellina fluminalis Müller, 1774 (monotypy) = Corbicula fluminalis

Cyrena Lamarck, 1818
Lamarck, 1818. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 5: 551’ [2nd page 551].
Type species: Cyrena cor Lamarck, 1818 (sub. desig. by Children, 1823) = Corbicula fluminalis

Venulites Schloth, 1820
Schloth, 1820. Petref.: 200.

Corbiculina Dall, 1903
Dall, 1903. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 16: 6.
Dall, 1903. Trans. Wagner Free Inst. 3(6): 1449.
Type species: Corbicula angasi Prime, 1864 = Corbicula australis

Cyrenodonax Dall, 1903
Dall, 1903. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 16: 6.
Dall, 1903. Trans. Wagner Free Inst. 3(6): 1450.
Type species: Corbicula (Cyrenodonax) formosana Dall, 1903 = Corbicula formosana

Posostrea Bogan & Bouchet, 1998
Bogan & Bouchet, 1998. Hydrobiologia 389: 132.
Type species: Posostrea anomioides Bogan & Bouchet, 1998 (monotypy) = Corbicula anomioides

Cyrene Schlüter, 1838
Schlüter, 1838. Kurzgef. Syst. Verz. Conch. Samml.: 34.
(error for Cyrena Lamarck, 1818)

Cyrnea Deshayes, 1858
Deshayes, 1858. Descr. Anim. s. Vert. Bassin Paris 1: 484.
(error for Cyrena Lamarck, 1818)

Corbulica Chenu, 1862
Chenu, 1862. Manuel Conchyl. 2: 102.
(error for Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811)

Cirene Costa, 1866
Costa, 1866. Atti Acad. Sci. Fis. Nat. Soc. Napoli 3: 27.
(error for Cyrena Lamarck, 1818)

Cirena Sacco, 1887
Sacco, 1887. Boll. Soc. Malac. Ital. 12: 142.
(error for Cyrena Lamarck, 1818)

Corbiculla Dalgliesh, 1907
Dalgliesh, 1907. Jour. Bombay nat. Hist. 17: 956.
(error for Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811)

Gyrena de Gregorio, 1930
de Gregorio, 1930. Ann. Géol. Paléont., livr. 53: 29.
(error for Cyrena Lamarck, 1818)

Cernodonax Vinarski & Kantor, 2016
‘Dall’ Vinarski & Kantor, 2016. Analyt. Cat. Fr. Brack. Moll. Russia: 80.
(error for Cyrenodonax Dall, 1903)
Type species: Corbicula (Cyrenodonax) formosana Dall, 1903 = Corbicula formosana

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Corbicula — Martens (1900), E.A. Smith (1904), Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905), Martens (1905), Bullen (1906), ... Bogatov (2022), Prié et al. (2023), Jihad (2023), Wu et al. (2023), Torres et al. (2024)
Corbicula (s.s.) — Dall (1903), Thiele (1934), Huber (2015)
Corbicula (s.s. sec. Corbiculina) — Dall (1903)
Corbicula (s.s. sec. Cyrenodonax) — Dall (1903)
Corbicula (Corbiculina) — Thiele (1934), B.J. Smith (1992)
Corbicula (Cyrenodonax) — Thiele (1934)
Posostrea — Bogan & Bouchet (1998), Rintelen & Glaubrecht (2005)

 
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