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

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Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenidae | Corbicula

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

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), Morton (1986), Glaubrecht et al. (2003), Rintelen & Glaubrecht (2005), Bogan (2010), Gomes et al. (2016), Bespalaya et al. (2018), Sahidin et al. (2021)
Corbicula (s.s.) javanicaHuber (2015)

Corbicula moussoni Deshayes, 1854
Deshayes, 1854. Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 227.

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

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 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, 1848
Mousson, 1848. Mitt. naturf. Ges. Zürich 1: 269.
(misidentified reference to Cyrena orientalis Lamarck, 1818)

Corbicula javanicavan Benthem Jutting (1953)

Cyrena moussoniana Sowerby, 1878
Sowerby, 1878. Conch. Icon. 20: pl. 17, fig. 97.
(error for Corbicula moussoni Deshayes, 1854)

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

Corbicula ovalina Leschke, 1914
Leschke, 1914. Mitt. naturh. Mus. Hamburg 31: 269.
(misidentified reference to Corbicula ovalina Deshayes, 1854)

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

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Corbicula sulcataMartens (1900)
Corbicula moussoniBullen (1906)
Corbicula javanicaPrashad (1930), van Benthem Jutting (1953), Brandt (1974), Djajasasmita (1977), Djajasasmita (1977), Morton (1986), Glaubrecht et al. (2003), Rintelen & Glaubrecht (2005), Bogan (2010), Gomes et al. (2016), Bespalaya et al. (2018), Sahidin et al. (2021)
Corbicula gracilisPrashad (1930)
Corbicula noetlingiHe & Zhuang (2013)
Corbicula (s.s.) javanicaHuber (2015)

 
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