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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Velesunioninae | Velesunio moretonicus

nominal species Diplodon australis May, 1921

Diplodon australis May, 1921 = Velesunio moretonicus

‘(Lamarck)’ May, 1921. unknown publication: 21.
May, 1923. unknown publication: pl. 9, fig. 11.
(misidentified reference to Unio australis Lamarck, 1819)

= Velesunio moretonicus

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Velesunio legrandi (Petterd, 1889) — McMichael & Hiscock, 1958

+ Velesunio shuttleworthi (Kuster, 1855) — Iredale, 1934

 
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