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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Unionida |
| Family: | Hyriidae |
| Subfamily: | Velesunioninae |
| Genus: | Velesunio Iredale, 1934 |
Velesunio is a genus of medium to large sized mussels in the family Hyriidae.
Velesunio are found on mainland Australia and Tasmania. Velesunio also occur in Papua New Guinea. [1]
Lives with two thirds of their shell buried in the sediment (making them infaunal) in rivers, streams, lakes, billabongs and water catchment dams. [1]
A list of species included in the genus of Velesunio:
Note:
Species of Velesunio may appear very similar in appearance to those of Alathyria, Hyridella, Cucumerunio and Westralunio.
The type species for this genus is Unio balonnensis Conrad, 1850 collected from the Balonne River, New South Wales.
The quagga mussel is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Dreissenidae. It has an average lifespan of 3 to 5 years.
The southern mud oyster, Australian flat oyster, native flat oyster, native mud oyster, or angasi oyster, is endemic to southern Australia, ranging from Western Australia to southeast New South Wales and around Tasmania. Ostrea angasi superficially resembles Ostrea edulis and both species may be referred to with the name "flat oyster". However, the two species do not occur naturally in the same geographic distribution.
Volva is a genus of sea snails, specifically cowry allies or ovulids, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae.
Glyptophysa is a genus of medium-sized sinistral (left-handed) air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family of Planorbidae.
Notopala is a genus of moderately large to large, freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Viviparidae, the river snails or mystery snails.
Pleurobema clava, the clubshell, club naiad or clubshell pearly mussel, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.
Atrina is a cosmopolitan genus of bivalve molluscs belonging to the family Pinnidae.
Velesunio ambiguous, the flood plain mussel, or the billabong mussel, is a species of freshwater bivalve in the family Hyriidae.
Hexaplex is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily muracinae of the family Muricidae, the murex shells or rock snails.
Austrodrillia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Horaiclavidae.
Athleta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.
Aclyvolva is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ovulidae.
Phenacovolva is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae.
Isidorella is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.
Austropyrgus ronkershawi is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the Hydrobiidae family. This species is endemic to Tasmania, Australia. It is known from a number of small streams and rivers in central northern Tasmania.
Bullastra is a genus of large-sized, globose snails in the family Lymnaeidae. Snails in this genus have large apertures and fleshy, triangular tentacles. This genus is similar to Austropeplea but differs in generally being larger and having a distinctive twist in the columella.
Velesunio wilsonii is a species of freshwater mussel endemic to Australia and comes from the Hyriidae family. Velesunio wilsonii mussels have a thick, dark shell that are sometimes flaky and mostly closed. Velesunio wilsonii have a fleshy foot that sometimes extends outside of the valves. The shell of the Velesunio wilsonii varies from oblong to a symmetrical circle. Velesunio wilsonii size ranges from 40 mm to 120 mm.
Glyptophysa novaehollandica is a freshwater species of gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae.
Bayardella is a genus of small, neritiform cylindrical shelled gastropods belonging to the family Planorbidae. They are native and endemic to Australia. Species of Bayardella, like other Planorbids, are non-operculate.
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