Bivalvia | Unionida | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Velesunioninae

genus Alathyria Iredale, 1934: synonymy

4 Recent freshwater species (7 total species)

Synonymy

Alathyria Iredale, 1934

Iredale, 1934. Austral. Zool. 8: 63.
Iredale, 1943. Austral. Zool. 10: 190.
Type species: Alathyria jacksoni Iredale, 1934 (orig. desig.) = Alathyria jacksoni

Quaesithyria Iredale, 1943

Iredale, 1943. Austral. Zool. 10: 191.
Type species: Quaesithyria wardi Iredale, 1943 (orig. desig.) = Alathyria pertexta

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

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

Diplodon (Hyridella s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Diplodon (Hyridella sec. Cucumaria) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Alathyria — Iredale (1934), Iredale (1943), McMichael (1957), McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Cotton (1961), ... Bolotov et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Wu et al. (2021), Ponder et al. (2025)
Quaesithyria — Iredale (1943)
Velesunio — McMichael (1957), McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Kear & Godthelp (2008)