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

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Velesunioninae

genus Alathyria Iredale, 1934: synonymy
     4 Recent valid species (7 total species)

Alathyria Iredale, 1934
Iredale, 1934. Austral. Zool. 8: 63.
Iredale, 1943. Austral. Zool. 10: 190.
Type species: Alathyria jacksoni Iredale, 1934 (orig. desig.) = Alathyria jacksoni

Quaesithyria Iredale, 1943
Iredale, 1943. Austral. Zool. 10: 191.
Type species: Quaesithyria wardi Iredale, 1943 (orig. desig.) = Alathyria pertexta

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Diplodon (Hyridella s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Diplodon (Hyridella sec. Cucumaria) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Alathyria — Iredale (1934), Iredale (1943), McMichael (1957), McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Cotton (1961), ... Huang et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2019), Bolotov et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), Wu et al. (2021)
Quaesithyria — Iredale (1943)
Velesunio — McMichael (1957), McMichael & Hiscock (1958)

 
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