Bivalvia | Unionida | Hyrioidea | Hyriidae | Velesunioninae | Westralunio

species Westralunio carteri Iredale, 1934: synonymy

53 specimens + 1 GenBank voucher

Synonymy

Unio australis Menke, 1843

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

Westralunio carteri — McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Klunzinger et al. (2022)

Hyridella ambigua Cotton & Gabriel, 1932

(misidentified reference to Unio ambiguus Philippi, 1847)
‘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]

Westralunio carteri — McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Klunzinger et al. (2022)

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Westralunio ambiguus carteri Iredale, 1934

(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio ambiguus Philippi, 1847)
Iredale, 1934. Austral. Zool. 8: 63, 76.
Iredale, 1943. Austral. Zool. 10: 190.
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 carteri — Iredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Westralunio carteri — McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Haas (1969), B.J. Smith (1992), Walker et al. (2001), Graf & Cummings (2007), ... Gomes-dos-Santos et al. (2023), Ponder et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Lawrie et al. (2026), Prié et al. (2026)
Westralunio carteri I — Klunzinger et al. (2021)
“Westralunio carteri II” ** — Klunzinger et al. (2021)
“Westralunio carteri III” ** — Klunzinger 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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Centralhyria angasi subjecta Iredale, 1934

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

Centralhyria angasi subjecta — Iredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Westralunio carteri — McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Haas (1969), B.J. Smith (1992), Klunzinger et al. (2022)

Unio moretonicus E.A. Smith, 1874

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

Westralunio carteri — McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Klunzinger et al. (2022)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

“Westralunio ambiguus” ** — Iredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Westralunio ambiguus carteri — Iredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Centralhyria angasi subjecta — Iredale (1934), Iredale (1943)
Westralunio carteri — McMichael & Hiscock (1958), Haas (1969), B.J. Smith (1992), Walker et al. (2001), Graf & Cummings (2007), ... Gomes-dos-Santos et al. (2023), Ponder et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Lawrie et al. (2026), Prié et al. (2026)
Westralunio carteri I — Klunzinger et al. (2021)
“Westralunio carteri II” ** — Klunzinger et al. (2021)
“Westralunio carteri III” ** — Klunzinger et al. (2021)
Westralunio carteri “WcI” — Benson et al. (2022)
“Westralunio carteri “WcII”” ** — Benson et al. (2022)
“Westralunio carteri “WcIII”” ** — Benson et al. (2022)