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

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genus Geloina Gray, 1842: synonymy
     6 Recent valid species (6 total species)

Geloina Gray, 1842
Gray, 1840. Synopt. Cont. Brit. Mus. 42nd ed.: 149. [nomen nudum]
Gray, 1842. Synopt. Cont. Brit. Mus. 44th ed.: 75.
Gray, 1847. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 15: 184.
Type species: Cyclas zeylanica Lamarck, 1806 (sub. desig. by Gray, 1847) = Geloina coaxans

Gelonia Meek, 1876
Meek, 1876. Rept. U.S. Geol. Surv. Terr. (Hayden) 9: 157.
(error for Geloina Gray, 1842)

Gelvina Clessin, 1877
‘Gray’ Clessin, 1877. Conch. Cab. 9(3): 101.
(error for Geloina Gray, 1842)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Cyrena (s.s. sec. Geloina)Dall (1903)
Cyrena (s.s.)Dall (1903)
CyrenaSchepman (1919)
Polymesoda (Geloina)Thiele (1934), Brandt (1974), Morton (1984), B.J. Smith (1992)
Polymesodavan Benthem Jutting (1953), Hadl (1976), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2012), OBIS (2012), He & Zhuang (2013)
GeloinaOBIS (2012), IUCN (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Liao et al. (2020), Sahidin et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2023), Huang et al. (2025)

 
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