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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Velesunioninae

genus Westralunio Iredale, 1934: synonymy

4 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)

Synonymy

Westralunio Iredale, 1934

Iredale, 1934. Austral. Zool. 8: 62.
Iredale, 1943. Austral. Zool. 10: 190.
Type species: Westralunio ambiguus carteri Iredale, 1934 (orig. desig.) = Westralunio carteri

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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Diplodon (Hyridella s.s.)Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
CentralhyriaIredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
WestralunioIredale (1934), Iredale (1943), McMichael (1956), McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Haas (1969), ... Sahidin et al. (2021), Klunzinger et al. (2022), Benson et al. (2022), Klunzinger (2023), Ponder et al. (2025)
MicrodontiaModell (1964)

 
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