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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 species Polymesoda floridana (Conrad, 1846): synonymy
1 specimen Cyrena floridana Conrad, 1846
Conrad, 1846. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 3(1): 23, pl. 1, fig. 1.
Cyrena (Pseudocyrena) floridana — Dall (1903)
Polymesoda floridana — WoRMS (2012), OBIS (2012) | |
Cyrena salmacida Morelet, 1851
Morelet, 1851. Test. Nov. 2: 26.
Polymesoda (Cyrenocapsa) salmacida — Martens (1900)
Polymesoda salmacida — Contreras-Arquieta (2000), Czaja et al. (2023)
Geloina salmacida — OBIS (2012) | |
Cyrena maritima d’Orbigny, 1853
d’Orbigny, 1853. Hist. phys., polit. et natur. Cuba 2: 280, pl. 21, figs. 47-50.
(renamed Cyrena cubensis Prime, 1865)
Cyrena (Pseudocyrena) floridana — Dall (1903)
Polymesoda (Pseudocyrena) maritima — Thiele (1934)
Polymesoda (Pseudocyrena) cubensis — Olsson (1961)
Polymesoda maritima — Turgeon et al. (1998), Park & Ó Foighil (2000), Kim et al. (2005), ITIS (2012)
Polymesoda floridana — WoRMS (2012)
Geloina maritima — OBIS (2012) | |
Cyrena cubensis Prime, 1865
Prime, 1865. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. (145): 29.
(new name for Cyrena maritima d’Orbigny, 1853)
Cyrena (Pseudocyrena) floridana — Dall (1903)
Polymesoda (Pseudocyrena) cubensis — Olsson (1961) | |
Cyrena protexta Conrad, 1869
Conrad, 1869. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 107, pl. 12, fig. 3.
Cyrena (Pseudocyrena) floridana — Dall (1903) | |
Cyrena donaciformis Sowerby, 1878
Sowerby, 1878. Conch. Icon. 20: pl. 19, fig. 108.
Cyrena (Pseudocyrena) floridana — Dall (1903) | |
Cyrena salmacida var. subrostrata Fischer & Crosse, 1894
Fischer & Crosse, 1894. Miss. Sci. Mexique, Rech. Zool. 2(16): 643, pl. 61, fig. 7.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Cyrena salmacida Morelet, 1851) | |
Taxonomic History (since 1900)Polymesoda (Cyrenocapsa) salmacida — Martens (1900)
Cyrena (Pseudocyrena) floridana — Dall (1903)
Polymesoda (Pseudocyrena) maritima — Thiele (1934)
Polymesoda (Pseudocyrena) cubensis — Olsson (1961)
Polymesoda maritima — Turgeon et al. (1998), Park & Ó Foighil (2000), Kim et al. (2005), ITIS (2012)
Polymesoda salmacida — Contreras-Arquieta (2000), Czaja et al. (2023)
Polymesoda floridana — WoRMS (2012), OBIS (2012)
Geloina salmacida — OBIS (2012)
Geloina maritima — OBIS (2012)
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