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

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Bivalvia | Venerida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenoididae | Geloina

species Geloina expansa (Mousson, 1849): specimens
     6 available nominal species synonyms (8 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Polymesoda erosa — Bogan (2010)
Geloina erosa — OBIS (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Liao et al. (2020), Wu et al. (2023)
Polymesoda expansa — IUCN (2012), OBIS (2012)
Geloina expansa — He & Zhuang (2013), Wu et al. (2023), Huang et al. (2025)
Polymesoda proxima — He & Zhuang (2013)
Geloina ‘expansa’ — Wu et al. (2023)

Range

Brackish, from Bay of Bengal, north to Japan, south to Australia, east to Vanuatu.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

No map available.

There are no specimens for this species in the MUSSELpdb.