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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 altilis (Gould, 1852): synonymy
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Cyrena altilis Gould, 1852
Gould, 1852. Boston Journ. of Nat. Hist. 6: 400, pl. 16, fig. 5 bis.

Neocyrena triangulaOlsson (1961)
Polymesoda (Egeta) altilisKeen (1971)
Polymesoda altilisWoRMS (2012)

Cyrena olivacea Carpenter, 1857
Carpenter, 1857. Maz. Shells: 114.
(homonym of Cyrena africana var. olivacea Krauss, 1848)

Polymesoda (s.s.) olivaceaMartens (1900)
Neocyrena triangulaOlsson (1961)
Polymesoda (Egeta) altilisKeen (1971)
Polymesoda olivaceaContreras-Arquieta (2000)
Geloina olivaceaOBIS (2012)

Cyrena fontainei Philippi, 1851
Philippi, 1851. Z. Malak.: 70.
(misidentified reference to Cyrena fontainei d’Orbigny, 1846)

Polymesoda (s.s.) olivaceaMartens (1900)
Polymesoda (Egeta) altilisKeen (1971)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Polymesoda (s.s.) olivaceaMartens (1900)
Neocyrena triangulaOlsson (1961)
Polymesoda (Egeta) altilisKeen (1971)
Polymesoda olivaceaContreras-Arquieta (2000)
Polymesoda altilisWoRMS (2012)
Geloina olivaceaOBIS (2012)

 
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