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Species Velesunio wilsonii (Lea, 1859)

Stuarts Mussel (for Centralhyria stuarti)


Compiler and date details

December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

April 2004 - Brian J. Smith, S. Reid & Winston F. Ponder, Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, TAS and Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

1992 - Brian J. Smith, Museum Victoria, Melbourne

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Mary River, Gympie, QLD, and QLD coastal rivers from Fitzroy River to Cairns; Norman, Saxby, Flinders, and Cloncurry Rivers to Gulf of Carpentaris; Lake Eyre drainage system and rivers in north-western Australia and southern New Guinea


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal
    • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
    • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin
    • Western Australia: N coastal, W plateau
  • Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, lotic freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

Coastal rivers and interior river systems.

 

General References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [400, text fig. 2] (also p. 400 Centralhyria stuarti)

Baker, A.M., C. Bartlett, S.E. Bunn, K. Goudkamp, F. Sheldon & J.M. Hughes 2003. Cryptic species and morphological plasticity in long-lived bivalves (Unionoida: Hyriidae) from inland Australia. Molecular Ecology 12: 2707-2717 [2707-2717]

Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [90-91, fig. 77]

Cotton, B.C. & Gabriel, C.J. 1932. Australian Unionidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 44(2): 155-160 pl. 16 [Date published April] [157-158, pl. 16, fig. 4]

Iredale, T. 1934. The freshwater mussels of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 8(1): 57-78 pls iii-vi [66, pl. 3, figs 13, 14, pl. 4, figs 13, 14] (p. 65, 66, pl. 3, fig. 12, pl. 4, fig. 12 as Centralhyria stuarti)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [140]

McMichael, D.F. & Hiscock, I.D. 1958. A monograph of the freshwater mussels (Mollusca : Pelecypoda) of the Australian region. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 9: 372-508 [398-400, pl. 2, figs 8-11, pl. 3, figs 1-3]

Walker, K.F., Byrne, M., Hickey, C.W. & Roper, D.S. 2001. Freshwater Mussels (Hyriidae) of Australasia. pp. 5-31 in Bauer, G. & Wächtler, K. (eds). Ecology and Evolution of the Freshwater Mussels Unionoida. Berlin, Germany : Springer-Verlag 394 pp. [9]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023 BIVALVIA 22-Aug-2023 MOVED Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
23-Oct-2014 BIVALVIA 16-Nov-2015 MODIFIED ABRS
11-Aug-2014 11-Aug-2014 MOVED
16-Nov-2010 16-Nov-2010 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)