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Publication Cotton & Gabriel (1932): summary
     publication summary

Complete Citation

Cotton & Gabriel. 1932. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 44(2).

Attributed Nominal Genera

Propehyridella Cotton & Gabriel, 1932
Cotton & Gabriel, 1932. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 44(2): 158.
Type species: Unio napeanensis Conrad, 1850 (original designation) = Hyridella australis

Protohyridella Cotton & Gabriel, 1932
Cotton & Gabriel, 1932. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 44(2): 159.
Type species: Unio glenelgensis Dennant, 1898 (original designation) = Hyridella glenelgensis

Attributed Nominal Species

Hyridella ambigua Cotton & Gabriel, 1932
‘Philippi’ Cotton & Gabriel, 1932. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 44(2): 157.
Iredale, 1934. Austral. Zool. 8: 62, pl. 3, fig. 8; pl. 4, fig. 8 [as ‘Westralunio ambiguus’]. [in part]
Iredale, 1943. Austral. Zool. 10: 190 [as ‘Westralunio ambiguus’]. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio ambiguus Philippi, 1847)

Hyridella australis E.A. Smith, 1882
‘Lamarck’ of Authors.
E.A. Smith, 1882. J. Linn. Soc., Zool. 16: 309.
Ortmann, 1912. Nautilus 25(9): 100.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 1297.
Cotton & Gabriel, 1932. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 44(2): 155, pl. 16, fig. 1.
(misidentified reference to Unio australis Lamarck, 1819)

Propehyridella narracanensis Cotton & Gabriel, 1932
Johnston, 1889. unknown publication: 95, pl. 1, figs. 1-5, 8-8a; pl. 2, fig. 12.
Cotton & Gabriel, 1932. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 44(2): 159, pl. 16, fig. 8.
Type(s): PARATYPE AMS_62019, Birregurra, Victoria, Australia [-38.333, 143.783 ± 1 km].

Unio australis Menke, 1843
‘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)

 
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