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

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species Arotonaias cyrenoides (Philippi, 1847): synonymy
     47 specimens

Unio cyrenoides Philippi, 1847
Philippi, 1847. Z. Malak. 4: 93.
Philippi, 1848. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 79, pl. 5, fig. 1.

Plagiola (Ptychoderma) cyrenoidesSimpson (1900)
Unio (Arotonaias) cyrenoidesMartens (1900)
Plagiola (Arotonaias) cyrenoidesSimpson (1914)
Arotonaias cyrenoidesFrierson (1927), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021)
Pachynaias cyrenoidesHaas (1929)
Haas (1969)

Unio newcombianus Lea, 1856
Lea, 1856. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 8: 103.
Lea, 1857. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 3 [O. 6]: 312 [32], pl. 30, fig. 27.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE USNM_84419, Lake Nicaragua, Nicaragua.

Plagiola (Ptychoderma) cyrenoidesSimpson (1900)
Unio (Arotonaias) newcombianusMartens (1900)
Plagiola (Arotonaias) cyrenoidesSimpson (1914)
Arotonaias cyrenoidesFrierson (1927), Bieler (2021)
Haas (1969)

Unio sagrinatus Sowerby, 1868
Sowerby, 1868. Conch. Icon. 16: pl. 67, sp. 345; errata [changed to ‘U. newcombianus Lea’].

Plagiola (Ptychoderma) cyrenoidesSimpson (1900)
Unio (Arotonaias) newcombianusMartens (1900)
Plagiola (Arotonaias) cyrenoidesSimpson (1914)
Arotonaias cyrenoidesFrierson (1927)
Haas (1969)

Unio gabbianus Martens, 1900
‘Lea’ Martens, 1900. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Moll.: pl. 39, figs. 5-5b.
(misidentified reference to Unio gabbianus Lea, 1868)

Plagiola (Arotonaias) cyrenoidesSimpson (1914)
Arotonaias cyrenoidesFrierson (1927)
Haas (1969)

Unio newcombii Lea, 1868
Lea, 1868. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6 [O. 12]: 295, errata.
(error for Unio newcombianus Lea, 1856)

Arotonaias cyrenoidesBieler (2021)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Plagiola (Ptychoderma) cyrenoidesSimpson (1900)
Unio (Arotonaias) cyrenoidesMartens (1900)
Unio (Arotonaias) newcombianusMartens (1900)
Plagiola (Arotonaias) cyrenoidesSimpson (1914)
Arotonaias cyrenoidesFrierson (1927), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021)
Pachynaias cyrenoidesHaas (1929)
Haas (1969)

 
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