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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

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Bivalvia | Venerida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenidae | Villorita

species Villorita cyprinoides (Gray, 1825): synonymy
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Cyrena cyprinoides Gray, 1825
Gray, 1825. Ann. Phil. 9: 136.
Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833. [in] Cuvier, Animal Kingdom 12(38): pl. 31, fig. 5 [as ‘Villorita’].
Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834. [in] Cuvier, Animal Kingdom 12(39-40): 601 [as ‘Villorita’].

Villorita cyprinoidesDall (1903), Thiele (1934), Subba Rao (1989), IUCN (2012), OBIS (2012), Wu et al. (2023), Huang et al. (2025)
Villorita sp.Nazneen & Begum (1994)

Cyrena cochinensis Hanley, 1858
Hanley, 1858. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1858: 543.

Cyrena corbiculaeformis Prime, 1860
Prime, 1860. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 12: 80.

Cyrena corbiculiformis Prime, 1870
Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 141.
‘Prime’ Clessin, 1879. Conch. Cab. 9(3): 225.
(error for Cyrena corbiculaeformis Prime, 1860)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Villorita cyprinoidesDall (1903), Thiele (1934), Subba Rao (1989), IUCN (2012), OBIS (2012), Wu et al. (2023), Huang et al. (2025)
Villorita sp.Nazneen & Begum (1994)

 
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