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

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species Corbicula javanica (Mousson, 1849): synonymy
     14 specimens

Corbicula fluminea Philippi, 1846
‘Müller’ of Authors.
Philippi, 1846. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 2(3): 76, pl. 1, fig. 3 [as ‘Cyrena’].
Mousson, 1849. Land-Süßw.-Moll. Java: 87, pl. 15, fig. 3.
O. Boettger, 1890. Ber. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 1890: 163.
Rolle, 1908. Nachr. Bl. Dtsch. Malak. Ges. 40: 69.
(misidentified reference to Tellina fluminea Müller, 1774)

Corbicula ducalisPrashad (1930)
Corbicula javanicavan Benthem Jutting (1953)

Cyrena orientalis var. javanica Mousson, 1849
Mousson, 1849. Land-Süßw.-Moll. Java: 86, pl. 15, fig. 2.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Cyrena orientalis Lamarck, 1818)

Corbicula javanicaPrashad (1930), van Benthem Jutting (1953), Brandt (1974), Djajasasmita (1977), Djajasasmita (1977), ... Bogan (2010), Gomes et al. (2016), Bespalaya et al. (2018), Sahidin et al. (2021), Kropotin et al. (2023)
Corbicula (s.s.) javanicaHuber (2015)

Corbicula moussoni Deshayes, 1855
Deshayes, 1855. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 2: 227.

Corbicula moussoniBullen (1906)
Corbicula javanicaPrashad (1930), van Benthem Jutting (1953), Brandt (1974), Djajasasmita (1977)

Corbicula ducalis Prime, 1862
Prime, 1862. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 8: 274.
Prime, 1866. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 225, fig. 58.

Corbicula ducalisPrashad (1930)
Corbicula javanicavan Benthem Jutting (1953), Brandt (1974), Djajasasmita (1977), Glaubrecht et al. (2003)

Corbicula gracilis Prime, 1862
Prime, 1860. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 12: 270. [nomen nudum]
Prime, 1862. J. de Conch. 10: 389, pl. 14, fig. 7.

Corbicula gracilisPrashad (1930)
Corbicula javanicavan Benthem Jutting (1953), Brandt (1974), Djajasasmita (1977)

Corbicula colonialis Prime, 1867
Prime, 1867. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(6): 416.

Corbicula ducalisPrashad (1930)
Corbicula javanicavan Benthem Jutting (1953), Brandt (1974), Djajasasmita (1977)

Corbicula sulcata Clessin, 1879
Clessin, 1879. Conch. Cab. 9(3): 188, pl. 32, figs. 17-18.

Corbicula sulcataMartens (1900)
Corbicula gracilisPrashad (1930)
Corbicula javanicavan Benthem Jutting (1953), Brandt (1974)

Corbicula subrostrata Bullen, 1904
Bullen, 1904. Proc. Malac. Soc. London 6: 109, pl. 6, figs. 7-9.

Corbicula javanicaPrashad (1930), van Benthem Jutting (1953), Brandt (1974), Djajasasmita (1977)

Cyrena orientalis Mousson, 1849
Mousson, 1849. Mitt. naturf. Ges. Zürich 1(3): 269.
(misidentified reference to Cyrena orientalis Lamarck, 1818)

Corbicula javanicavan Benthem Jutting (1953)

Cyrena gracilis Sowerby, 1878
Sowerby, 1878. Conch. Icon. 20: pl. 14, fig. 67.
(reference to Corbicula gracilis Prime, 1862)

Corbicula ducalisPrashad (1930)

Cyrena moussoniana Sowerby, 1878
Sowerby, 1878. Conch. Icon. 20: pl. 17, fig. 97.
(error for Corbicula moussoni Deshayes, 1855)

Corbicula javanicaPrashad (1930)
Corbicula noetlingiHe & Zhuang (2013)

Corbicula fluminea var. moussoni Clessin, 1879
Clessin, 1879. Conch. Cab. 9(3): 154.
(reference to Corbicula moussoni Deshayes, 1855)

Corbicula ducalisPrashad (1930)
Corbicula javanicaDjajasasmita (1977)

Corbicula ovalina Leschke, 1914
Leschke, 1914. Mitt. naturh. Mus. Hamburg 31: 269.
(misidentified reference to Corbicula ovalina Deshayes, 1855)

Corbicula javanicaPrashad (1930), van Benthem Jutting (1953), Djajasasmita (1977)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Corbicula sulcataMartens (1900)
Corbicula moussoniBullen (1906)
Corbicula ducalisPrashad (1930)
Corbicula javanicaPrashad (1930), van Benthem Jutting (1953), Brandt (1974), Djajasasmita (1977), Djajasasmita (1977), ... Bogan (2010), Gomes et al. (2016), Bespalaya et al. (2018), Sahidin et al. (2021), Kropotin et al. (2023)
Corbicula gracilisPrashad (1930)
Corbicula noetlingiHe & Zhuang (2013)
Corbicula (s.s.) javanicaHuber (2015)

 
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