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

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species Polymesoda caroliniana (Bosc, 1801): synonymy
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Cyclas caroliniana Bosc, 1801
Bosc, 1801. Hist. Nat. Coquilles 3: pl. 18, fig. 4.

Cyrena (s.s. sec. Polymesoda) carolinianaDall (1903)
Polymesoda (s.s.) carolinianaThiele (1934), Olsson (1961)
Polymesoda carolinianaTurgeon et al. (1998), Park & Ó Foighil (2000), Siripattrawan et al. (2000), Glaubrecht et al. (2003), Kim et al. (2005), ... Gonzáles et al. (2015), Combosch et al. (2017), Kondakov et al. (2020), Czaja et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023)

Cyrena carolinensis Hanley, 1843
‘Lamarck’ of Authors.
Hanley, 1843. Illustr. Descr. Cat. Rec. Bivalve Shells: 93.
Philippi, 1848. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 78.
Clessin, 1877. Conch. Cab. 9(3): 108.
Prime, 1895. Cat. Corbiculadae: 19.
(error for Cyrena caroliniensis Lamarck, 1818; error for Cyclas caroliniana Bosc, 1801)

Cyrena alabamensis Clessin, 1877
Clessin, 1877. Conch. Cab. 9(3): 114, pl. 18, figs. 3-4.

[Tellina ?] cyrena of Authors, unknown year
Say of Authors.

Cyrena caroliniensis Lamarck, 1818
Lamarck, 1818. Hist. Natur. Anim. sans Vert. 5: 553’ [2nd page 553].
(error for Cyclas caroliniana Bosc, 1801)

Cyrena (s.s. sec. Polymesoda) carolinianaDall (1903)

Cyrena floridana Sowerby, 1878
Sowerby, 1878. Conch. Icon. 20: pl. 18, fig. 102.
(misidentified reference to Cyrena floridana Conrad, 1846)

Cyrena (s.s. sec. Polymesoda) carolinianaDall (1903)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Cyrena (s.s. sec. Polymesoda) carolinianaDall (1903)
Polymesoda (s.s.) carolinianaThiele (1934), Olsson (1961)
Polymesoda carolinianaTurgeon et al. (1998), Park & Ó Foighil (2000), Siripattrawan et al. (2000), Glaubrecht et al. (2003), Kim et al. (2005), ... Gonzáles et al. (2015), Combosch et al. (2017), Kondakov et al. (2020), Czaja et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2023)

 
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