Bivalvia | Unionida | 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)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Westralunio, since 1900.

Diplodon (Hyridella s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Centralhyria — Iredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Westralunio — Iredale (1934), Iredale (1943), McMichael (1956), McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Haas (1969), ... Klunzinger et al. (2022), Benson et al. (2022), Klunzinger (2023), Ponder et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Microdontia — Modell (1964)