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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Velesunioninae | Westralunio carteri

nominal species Unio australis Menke, 1843

Unio australis Menke, 1843 = Westralunio carteri

‘Lamarck’ Menke, 1843. Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen: 38, sp. 219.
Cotton & Gabriel, 1932. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 44(2): 157 [as ‘Hyridella’]. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio australis Lamarck, 1819)

= Westralunio carteri

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Westralunio carteri (Iredale, 1934) — Klunzinger et al., 2022

+ Westralunio carteri Iredale, 1934 — McMichael & Hiscock, 1958

 
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