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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Velesunioninae | Velesunio ambiguus

nominal species Unio ambiguus Philippi, 1847

image of type lot

Unio ambiguus Philippi, 1847 = Velesunio ambiguus

specimen image from publication‘Parreyss’ Philippi, 1847. Abbild. Beschr. Conch. 3: 47, pl. 3, fig. 2.
(renamed Unio philippianus Küster, 1861)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_41-4-29-103, Australia.

= Velesunio ambiguus

Taxonomic Opinions

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Ponder et al., 2025

= Velesunio cf. ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Ponder et al., 2025

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Klunzinger et al., 2022

= Velesunio ambiguusKlunzinger et al., 2021

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Graf & Cummings, 2021

= Velesunio ambiguusSonowal et al., 2021

= Velesunio ambiguusLopes-Lima et al., 2020

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Bolotov et al., 2020

= Velesunio ambiguusWu et al., 2020

= Velesunio ambiguusSano et al., 2020

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Huang et al., 2019

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Bolotov et al., 2019

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Bolotov et al., 2018

= Velesunio ambiguusHuang et al., 2018

= Velesunio ambiguusLopes-Lima et al., 2018

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Lopes-Lima et al., 2017

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Bolotov et al., 2017

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Bolotov et al., 2017

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Combosch et al., 2017

= Velesunio ambiguusElderkin et al., 2016

= Velesunio ambiguusSantos-Neto et al., 2016

= Velesunio ambiguusBolotov et al., 2016

= Velesunio ambiguusGraf et al., 2015

= Velesunio ambiguous [sic] (Philippi, 1847) — Pfeiffer & Graf, 2015

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — González & Giribet, 2015

= Velesunio ambiguusKongim et al., 2015

= Velesunio ambiguusZieritz et al., 2015

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Walker et al., 2014

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Marshall et al., 2014

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Bieler et al., 2014

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Pfeiffer & Graf, 2013

= Velesunio ambiguusZieritz et al., 2013

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Whelan et al., 2011

= Velesunio ambiguus Philippi, 1847 — Bogan, 2010

= Velesunio ambiguusHoeh et al., 2009

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Graf & Cummings, 2007

= Velesunio ambiguous [sic] (Philippi, 1847) — Graf & Cummings, 2006

= Velesunio ambiguusWalker et al., 2006

= Velesunio ambiguusBaker et al., 2004

= Velesunio ambiguusHughes et al., 2004

= Velesunio ambiguusBaker et al., 2003

= Velesunio ambigua (Philippi, 1847) — Graf, 2002

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi) — Walker et al., 2001

= Velesunio ambigua (Philippi, 1847) — Graf, 2000

= Velesunio ambiguusGraf & Ó Foighil, 2000

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — B.J. Smith, 1992

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Haas, 1969

= Hyridella (Velesunio) ambigua (Philippi, 1847) — Haas, 1969

= Velesunio ambiguus Philippi, 1847 — Cotton, 1961

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — McMichael & Hiscock, 1958

= Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — McMichael, 1957

= Westralunio ambiguus Philippi — Iredale, 1943

= Westralunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — Iredale, 1934

+ Diplodon (Hyridella s.s.) australis (‘Lamarck’ Hanley, 1843) — Simpson, 1914

+ Diplodon (Hyridella s.s.) australis (Lamarck, 1819) Hanley, 1842 — Simpson, 1900

= Unio (sec. Naïa) ambiguus Philippi, 1847 — Paetel, 1890

+ Unio vittatus Lea — Tate, 1887

= Unio ambiguus Parreyss — E.A. Smith, 1882

+ Margaron (Unio) depressus (Lam.) — Lea, 1870

= Unio ambiguus Philippi, 1847 — Sowerby, 1868

+ Unio philippianus Küster — Küster, 1861

+ Margaron (Unio) australis (Lam.) — Lea, 1852

= Unio ambiguus ‘Parreyss’ — Philippi, 1847

 
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