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Unionidae

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Publication Klunzinger et al. (2021): summary

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Full Citation

Klunzinger, M.W., M. Lopes-Lima, A. Gomes-dos-Santos, E. Froufe, A.J. Lymbery & L. Kirkendale. 2021. Phylogeographic study of the West Australian freshwater mussel, Westralunio carteri, uncovers evolutionarily significant units that raise new conservation concerns. Hydrobiologia 848: 2951-2964. Available electronically.

Attributed Nominal Species

Westralunio carteri Klunzinger et al., 2021 = Westralunio inbisi

Klunzinger et al., 2021. Hydrobiologia 848: 2954 [as ‘W. carteri II’]. [in part]
Benson et al., 2022. Aquatic Conserv.: Mar. Freshw. Ecosyst. 32(4): 565 [as ‘WcII’]. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Westralunio ambiguus carteri Iredale, 1934)

Westralunio carteri Klunzinger et al., 2021 = Westralunio inbisi

Klunzinger et al., 2021. Hydrobiologia 848: 2955 [as ‘W. carteri III’]. [in part]
Benson et al., 2022. Aquatic Conserv.: Mar. Freshw. Ecosyst. 32(4): 565 [as ‘WcIII’]. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Westralunio ambiguus carteri Iredale, 1934)

Taxonomic Opinions

Cucumerunio novaehollandiae

Margaritifera margaritifera

Unio pictorum

Velesunio ambiguus

Westralunio carteri I = Westralunio carteri

Westralunio carteri II = Westralunio carteri

Westralunio carteri III = Westralunio carteri

 
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