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

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Bivalvia | Venerida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenoididae | Polymesoda

species Polymesoda fortis (Prime, 1861): synonymy
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Cyrena solida Philippi, 1846
Philippi, 1846. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 2(3): 78, pl. 1, fig. 9.
(renamed Cyrena nicaraguana Prime, 1870; homonym of Cyrena solida Dunker, 1843)

Polymesoda (s.s.) solidaMartens (1900)
Polymesoda (Neocyrena) nicaraguanaKeen (1971)
Polymesoda arctataWoRMS (2012)
Neocyrena solidaOBIS (2012)
Polymesoda solidaPereira et al. (2014), Ituarte (2020)

Cyrena fortis Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. J. de Conch. 9: 355.
Prime, 1862. J. de Conch. 10: 387, pl. 14, fig. 2.

Neocyrena fortisOlsson (1961)
Polymesoda (Neocyrena) fontaineiKeen (1971)

Cyrena nicaraguana Prime, 1870
Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 146.
(new name for Cyrena solida Philippi, 1846)

Polymesoda (s.s.) solidaMartens (1900)
Neocyrena nicaraguanaOlsson (1961)
Polymesoda (Neocyrena) nicaraguanaKeen (1971)
Polymesoda arctataWoRMS (2012)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Polymesoda (s.s.) solidaMartens (1900)
Neocyrena fortisOlsson (1961)
Neocyrena nicaraguanaOlsson (1961)
Polymesoda (Neocyrena) nicaraguanaKeen (1971)
Polymesoda (Neocyrena) fontaineiKeen (1971)
Polymesoda arctataWoRMS (2012)
Neocyrena solidaOBIS (2012)
Polymesoda solidaPereira et al. (2014), Ituarte (2020)

 
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