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

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

nominal species Hyridella australis E.A. Smith, 1881

‘Lamarck’ of Authors.
E.A. Smith, 1881, J. Linn. Soc., Zool. 16: 309.
Ortmann, 1912, Nautilus 25(9): 100.
Simpson, 1914, Descr. Cat. Naiades: 1297.
Cotton & Gabriel, 1932, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 44(2): 155, pl. 16, fig. 1.
(misidentified reference to Unio australis Lamarck, 1819)

= Velesunio ambiguus

Taxonomic Opinions

+ Velesunio ambiguus Philippi, 1847 — Cotton, 1961
+ Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) — McMichael & Hiscock, 1958

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