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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 fortis

nominal species 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 fortis

Taxonomic Opinions

= Polymesoda solida (Philippi, 1846) — Ituarte, 2020

= Polymesoda solida (Philippi, 1846) — Pereira et al., 2014

+ Polymesoda arctata (Deshayes, 1854) — WoRMS, 2012

= Neocyrena solida (Philippi) — OBIS, 2012

+ Polymesoda (Neocyrena) nicaraguana (Prime, 1869) — Keen, 1971

= Polymesoda (s.s.) solida (Philippi, 1846) — Martens, 1900

+ Cyrena radiata Hanley — Prime, 1895

+ Cyrena (Leptosiphon) nicaraguana T. Prime, 1869 — Fischer & Crosse, 1894

= Cyrena solida Philippi — Clessin, 1877

+ Cyrena nicaraguana Prime — Prime, 1870

= Cyrena solida Philippi — Prime, 1865

= Cyrena solida Phil. — Deshayes, 1855

= Cyrena solida Ph. — Philippi, 1846

 
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