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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | ... | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Velesunioninae | Westralunio

species Westralunio carteri Iredale, 1934: synonymy
     53 specimens

Unio australis Menke, 1843
‘Lamarck’ Menke, 1843. Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen: 38, sp. 219.
Cotton & Gabriel, 1932. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 44(2): 157 [as ‘Hyridella’]. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio australis Lamarck, 1819)

Westralunio carteriMcMichael & Hiscock (1958), Klunzinger et al. (2022)

Hyridella ambigua Cotton & Gabriel, 1932
‘Philippi’ Cotton & Gabriel, 1932. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 44(2): 157.
Iredale, 1934. Austral. Zool. 8: 62, pl. 3, fig. 8; pl. 4, fig. 8 [as ‘Westralunio ambiguus’]. [in part]
Iredale, 1943. Austral. Zool. 10: 190 [as ‘Westralunio ambiguus’]. [in part]
(misidentified reference to Unio ambiguus Philippi, 1847)

Westralunio carteriMcMichael & Hiscock (1958), Klunzinger et al. (2022)

Centralhyria angasi subjecta Iredale, 1934
Iredale, 1934. Austral. Zool. 8: 67, 76.
Iredale, 1943. Austral. Zool. 10: 190.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio angasi Sowerby, 1867)
Type(s): LECTOTYPE BMNH_1840-10-21-29 (by McMichael & Hiscock, 1958: 427), River Avon, South Australia.

Centralhyria angasi subjectaIredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Westralunio carteriMcMichael & Hiscock (1958), Haas (1969), B.J. Smith (1992), Klunzinger et al. (2022)

Westralunio ambiguus carteri Iredale, 1934
Iredale, 1934. Austral. Zool. 8: 63, 76.
Iredale, 1943. Austral. Zool. 10: 190.
(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio ambiguus Philippi, 1847)
Type(s): LECTOTYPE AMS_61724 (by McMichael & Hiscock, 1958: 427), Victoria Reservoir, Darling Range, 12 mls E of Perth, Western Australia, Australia [-32.05, 116.067 ± 10 km].

Westralunio ambiguus carteriIredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Westralunio carteriMcMichael & Hiscock (1958), Haas (1969), B.J. Smith (1992), Walker et al. (2001), Graf & Cummings (2007), ... Huang et al. (2019), Guerra et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), Klunzinger et al. (2022), Klunzinger (2023)
Westralunio carteri IKlunzinger et al. (2021)
Westralunio carteri IIKlunzinger et al. (2021)
Westralunio carteri IIIKlunzinger et al. (2021)
Westralunio carteri “WcI”Benson et al. (2022)
Westralunio carteri “WcII”Benson et al. (2022)
Westralunio carteri “WcIII”Benson et al. (2022)

Unio moretonicus E.A. Smith, 1874
‘Reeve’ E.A. Smith, 1874. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. “Erebus” and “Terror” 2: 3, pl. 4, fig. 2.
(misidentified reference to Unio moretonicus Reeve, 1865)

Westralunio carteriMcMichael & Hiscock (1958), Klunzinger et al. (2022)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Centralhyria angasi subjectaIredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Westralunio ambiguus carteriIredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Westralunio carteriMcMichael & Hiscock (1958), Haas (1969), B.J. Smith (1992), Walker et al. (2001), Graf & Cummings (2007), ... Huang et al. (2019), Guerra et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), Klunzinger et al. (2022), Klunzinger (2023)
Westralunio carteri IKlunzinger et al. (2021)
Westralunio carteri IIKlunzinger et al. (2021)
Westralunio carteri IIIKlunzinger et al. (2021)
Westralunio carteri “WcI”Benson et al. (2022)
Westralunio carteri “WcII”Benson et al. (2022)
Westralunio carteri “WcIII”Benson et al. (2022)

 
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