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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. Zeitschr. f. Malakozool. 4(6): 93.
Philippi, 1848. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 79, pl. 5, fig. 1.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (MONOTYPY) MNHNS_50199, Lake Nicaragua.

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), Cummings et al. (2025)
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 (by Cummings et al., 2025: 150), Lake Nicaragua, Nicaragua.

Plagiola (Ptychoderma) cyrenoidesSimpson (1900)
Unio (Arotonaias) newcombianusMartens (1900)
Plagiola (Arotonaias) cyrenoidesSimpson (1914)
Arotonaias cyrenoidesFrierson (1927), Bieler (2021), Cummings et al. (2025)
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), Cummings et al. (2025)
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), Cummings et al. (2025)

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), Cummings et al. (2025)
Pachynaias cyrenoidesHaas (1929)
Haas (1969)

 
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