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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Velesunioninae | Velesunio

species Velesunio wilsonii (Lea, 1859): synonymy

244 specimens

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Unio wilsonii Lea, 1859

Lea, 1859. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 11: 153.
specimen image from publicationLea, 1860. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 [O. 7]: 256, pl. 40, fig. 137.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE ANSP_41817, N.S. Wales.

Diplodon (Hyridella s.s.) wilsoniiSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Centralhyria wilsoniiIredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Velesunio wilsoniiMcMichael (1956), McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Cotton (1961), Haas (1969), B.J. Smith (1992), ... Bogan (2010), Zieritz et al. (2013), Walker et al. (2014), Graf & Cummings (2021), Sahidin et al. (2021)

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Unio (Alasmodon) stuarti Adams & Angas, 1863

Adams & Angas, 1863. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1863(27): 417.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE BMNH_1870-10-26-40, Lagoon near Mt. Margaret, Central Australia.

Diplodon (Hyridella s.s.) wilsoniiSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Centralhyria stuartiIredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Velesunio wilsoniiMcMichael & Hiscock (1958), Haas (1969), B.J. Smith (1992)

Diplodon bednalli Frierson, 1908

‘Tate’ Frierson, 1908. Nautilus 21: 118.
(misidentified reference to Unio bednalli Tate, 1882)

Velesunio wilsoniiMcMichael & Hiscock (1958)

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Centralhyria wilsonii caurina Iredale, 1934

specimen image from publicationIredale, 1934. Austral. Zool. 8: 66, pl. 3, fig. 14; pl. 4, fig. 14.
Iredale, 1943. Austral. Zool. 10: 190.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio wilsonii Lea, 1859)
Type(s): HOLOTYPE (ORIG. DESIG.) AMS_42241, May River at Meda, Western Australia, Australia [-17.367, 124 ± 10 km].

Centralhyria wilsonii caurinaIredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Velesunio wilsoniiMcMichael & Hiscock (1958), Haas (1969), B.J. Smith (1992)

Hyridella anodontaeformis R.I. Johnson, 1948

R.I. Johnson, 1948. Nautilus 62: 47.
(misidentified reference to Unio (Microdontia) anodontaeformis Tapparone Canefri, 1883)

Velesunio wilsoniiMcMichael & Hiscock (1958)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Diplodon (Hyridella s.s.) wilsoniiSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Centralhyria stuartiIredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Centralhyria wilsoniiIredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Centralhyria wilsonii caurinaIredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Velesunio wilsoniiMcMichael (1956), McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Cotton (1961), Haas (1969), B.J. Smith (1992), ... Bogan (2010), Zieritz et al. (2013), Walker et al. (2014), Graf & Cummings (2021), Sahidin et al. (2021)

 
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