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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): synonymy
0 specimens Venus erosa Lightfoot, 1786
‘S.’ Lightfoot, 1786. Catalogue of the Portland Museum: 186, no. 3961.
Polymesoda erosa — van Benthem Jutting (1953), Bogan (2010)
Polymesoda (Geloina) erosa — Morton (1984)
Geloina erosa — OBIS (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Liao et al. (2020), Wu et al. (2023) | |
Capsa violacea Humphrey, 1797
Humphrey, 1797. Mus. Col.: 59. | |
Cyrena expansa Mousson, 1849
Mousson, 1849. Land-Süßw.-Moll. Java: 89, pl. 14.
Polymesoda expansa — van Benthem Jutting (1953), IUCN (2012), OBIS (2012)
Polymesoda (Geloina) expansa — Morton (1984)
Geloina expansa — He & Zhuang (2013), Wu et al. (2023), Huang et al. (2025)
Geloina ‘expansa’ — Wu et al. (2023) | |
Cyrena lata Mousson, 1849
Mousson, 1849. Mitt. naturf. Ges. Zürich 1(3): 269.
Polymesoda expansa — van Benthem Jutting (1953)
Geloina expansa — He & Zhuang (2013) | |
Cyrena bernardiana Prime, 1861
Prime, 1861. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 13: 126.
Geloina expansa — He & Zhuang (2013) | |
Cyrena proxima Prime, 1864
Prime, 1863. Cat. Corbicul.: 6. [nomen nudum]
 Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 85, fig. 34.
Polymesoda (Geloina) proxima — Brandt (1974)
Polymesoda (Geloina) expansa — Morton (1984)
Polymesoda proxima — He & Zhuang (2013) | |
Cyrena bernardiiana Prime, 1864
‘Prime’ Prime, 1864. Ann. Lyc. Natur. Hist. 8(3): 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 erosa — van Benthem Jutting (1953), Bogan (2010)
Polymesoda expansa — van Benthem Jutting (1953), IUCN (2012), OBIS (2012)
Polymesoda (Geloina) proxima — Brandt (1974)
Polymesoda (Geloina) erosa — Morton (1984)
Polymesoda (Geloina) expansa — Morton (1984)
Geloina erosa — OBIS (2012), He & Zhuang (2013), Liao et al. (2020), Wu et al. (2023)
Geloina expansa — He & Zhuang (2013), Wu et al. (2023), Huang et al. (2025)
Polymesoda proxima — He & Zhuang (2013)
Geloina ‘expansa’ — Wu et al. (2023)
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