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

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Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenoididae | Geloina

species Geloina expansa (Mousson, 1849): synonymy
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Cyrena lata Mousson, 1848
Mousson, 1848. Mitt. naturf. Ges. Zürich 1: 269.

Polymesoda expansavan Benthem Jutting (1953)
Geloina expansaHe & Zhuang (2013)

Cyrena expansa Mousson, 1849
Mousson, 1849. Land-Süßw.-Moll. Java: 89, pl. 14.

Polymesoda expansavan Benthem Jutting (1953), IUCN (2012), OBIS (2012)
Polymesoda (Geloina) expansaMorton (1984)
Geloina expansaHe & Zhuang (2013), Wu et al. (2023)

Cyrena bernardiana Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 126.

Geloina expansaHe & Zhuang (2013)

Cyrena proxima Prime, 1867
Prime, 1863. Cat. Corbicul.: 6. [nomen nudum]
Prime, 1867. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8: 85, fig. 34.

Polymesoda (Geloina) proximaBrandt (1974)
Polymesoda (Geloina) expansaMorton (1984)
Polymesoda proximaHe & Zhuang (2013)

Cyrena bernardiiana Prime, 1867
‘Prime’ Prime, 1867. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8: 83, fig. 33.
(error for Cyrena bernardiana Prime, 1861)

Cyrena bernardana Prime, 1870
Prime, 1870. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 142.
(error for Cyrena bernardiana Prime, 1861)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Polymesoda expansavan Benthem Jutting (1953), IUCN (2012), OBIS (2012)
Polymesoda (Geloina) proximaBrandt (1974)
Polymesoda (Geloina) expansaMorton (1984)
Geloina expansaHe & Zhuang (2013), Wu et al. (2023)
Polymesoda proximaHe & Zhuang (2013)

 
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