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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

For each valid genus, the nominal generic synonyms are listed. The taxonomic history (since 1900) at the bottom of the page lists the genera to which all of the currently included species have been classified.

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genus Cyrenoida de Joannis, 1835: nominal genera
     6 valid species

Cyrenoida de Joannis, 1835
de Joannis, 1835, Mag. Zool. 5: pl. 64.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Cyrena Lamarck, 1818; renamed Cyrenella Deshayes, 1854)
Type species: Cyrenoida dupontia de Joannis, 1835 () = Cyrenoida dupontia

Cyrenoides Sowerby, 1839
Sowerby, 1839, Conch. Man.: 37.
(error for Cyrenoida de Joannis, 1835)

Cyrenoidea Hanley, 1843
Hanley, 1843, Illustr. Descr. Cat. Rec. Bivalve Shells: 10.
(error for Cyrenoida de Joannis, 1835)

Cyrenella Deshayes, 1854
Deshayes, 1854, Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: ?, pl. 15, fig. 4.
(new name for Cyrenoida de Joannis, 1835)

Cyrenodonta Deshayes, 1854
Deshayes, 1854, Cat. Bivalves Brit. Mus. part 1: 240 [as ‘Cyrenodontæ’].
Adams & Adams, 1857, Gen. Rec. Moll. 2(31-32): 453.
(error for Cyrenoida de Joannis, 1835)

Cyrenocapsa Fischer, 1872
Fischer, 1872, Ann. Lyceum New York 10: 195.
Type species: Cyrenoida floridana Dall, 1895 () = Cyrenoida floridana

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

CyrenoidaDall & Simpson (1901), Dall (1901), Dall (1903), Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927), ..., Combosch et al. (2017), Soroka et al. (2018), Kondakov et al. (2020), Czaja et al. (2023)

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