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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Bivalvia | Venerida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenoididae genus Polymesoda Rafinesque, 1820: synonymy
19 Recent valid species (19 total species) Polymesoda Rafinesque, 1820
Rafinesque, 1820. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5 (13): 319.
Rafinesque, 1864. [in] Binney & Tryon, reprint: 61.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Cyclas Lamarck, 1799)
Type species: Cyclas caroliniana Bosc, 1801 (orig. desig.) = Polymesoda caroliniana Pseudocyrena Bourguignat, 1854
Bourguignat, 1854. Rev. Mag. Zool. 6: 673.
Type species: Cyrena maritima d’Orbigny, 1853 = Polymesoda floridana Anomala Deshayes, 1855
Deshayes, 1853. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 255.
Deshayes, 1855. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 22: 20.
(homonym of v. Block, 1799 [Hymen.]; intro'd as sub-gen. of Cyrena Lamarck, 1818; renamed Egeta Adams & Adams, 1857)
Type species: Cyrena anomala Deshayes, 1855 (tautonomy) = Polymesoda anomala Egeta Adams & Adams, 1857
Adams & Adams, 1857. Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 651.
(new name for Anomala Deshayes, 1855) Egetaria Mørch, 1861
Mørch, 1861. Malak. Blatt. 7: 194.
Type species: Polymesoda (Egetaria) pullastra Mørch, 1861 = Polymesoda notabilis Cyprinella Gabb, 1864
Gabb, 1864. Geol. Surv. Calif., Paleont. 1: 170.
(homonym of Girard, 1856 [Pisces]; renamed Diodus Gabb, 1869) Diodus Gabb, 1869
Gabb, 1869. Geol. Surv. Calif., Paleont. 2: 242.
(new name for Cyprinella Gabb, 1864) Leptosiphon Fischer, 1872
Fischer, 1872. Ann. Lyceum New York 10: 195.
Type species: Cyclas caroliniana Bosc, 1801 = Polymesoda caroliniana Neocyrena Fischer & Crosse, 1894
Fischer & Crosse, 1894. Miss. Sci. Mexique, Rech. Zool. 2(16): 631, 634.
Type species: Cyrena nicaraguana Prime, 1870 (sub. desig. by H.B. Baker, 1930: 60) = Polymesoda fortis Polymeroda Deshayes, 1853
Deshayes, 1853. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 241.
(error for Polymesoda Rafinesque, 1820) Taxonomic History (since 1900)Polymesoda (Egeta) — Martens (1900), Olsson (1961), Keen (1971)
Polymesoda (s.s.) — Martens (1900), Thiele (1934), Olsson (1961), Keen (1971)
Polymesoda (Cyrenocapsa) — Martens (1900)
Cyrena (s.s. sec. Polymesoda) — Dall (1903)
Cyrena (Pseudocyrena) — Dall (1903)
Cyrena (Pseudocyrena sec. Egetaria) — Dall (1903)
Polymesoda — H.B. Baker (1930), Morrison (1946), Turgeon et al. (1998), Park & Ó Foighil (2000), Siripattrawan et al. (2000), ... Combosch et al. (2017), Kondakov et al. (2020), Ituarte (2020), Czaja et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023)
Polymesoda (Pseudocyrena) — Thiele (1934), Olsson (1961)
Polymesoda (Egetaria) — Thiele (1934)
Neocyrena — Olsson (1961), OBIS (2012)
Polymesoda (Neocyrena) — Keen (1971)
Cyanocyclas — Simone (2006)
Geloina — OBIS (2012)
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