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

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Bivalvia | Veneroida | Cyrenoidea | Cyrenoididae | Polymesoda

species Polymesoda floridana (Conrad, 1846): synonymy
     1 specimen

Cyrena floridana Conrad, 1846
Conrad, 1846. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 3: 23, pl. 1, fig. 1.

Cyrena (Pseudocyrena) floridanaDall (1903)
Polymesoda floridanaWoRMS (2012), 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) floridanaDall (1903)
Polymesoda (Pseudocyrena) maritimaThiele (1934)
Polymesoda (Pseudocyrena) cubensisOlsson (1961)
Polymesoda maritimaTurgeon et al. (1998), Park & Ó Foighil (2000), Kim et al. (2005), ITIS (2012)
Polymesoda floridanaWoRMS (2012)
Geloina maritimaOBIS (2012)

Cyrena cubensis Prime, 1865
Prime, 1865. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. (145): 29.
(new name for Cyrena maritima d’Orbigny, 1853)

Cyrena (Pseudocyrena) floridanaDall (1903)
Polymesoda (Pseudocyrena) cubensisOlsson (1961)

Cyrena protexta Conrad, 1869
Conrad, 1869. Amer. J. Conch. 5: 107, pl. 12, fig. 3.

Cyrena (Pseudocyrena) floridanaDall (1903)

Cyrena donaciformis Sowerby, 1878
Sowerby, 1878. Conch. Icon. 20: pl. 19, fig. 108.

Cyrena (Pseudocyrena) floridanaDall (1903)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Cyrena (Pseudocyrena) floridanaDall (1903)
Polymesoda (Pseudocyrena) maritimaThiele (1934)
Polymesoda (Pseudocyrena) cubensisOlsson (1961)
Polymesoda maritimaTurgeon et al. (1998), Park & Ó Foighil (2000), Kim et al. (2005), ITIS (2012)
Polymesoda floridanaWoRMS (2012), OBIS (2012)
Geloina maritimaOBIS (2012)

 
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