Velesunio ambiguus, the floodplain mussel,[2] or the billabong mussel (South Australia),[3] is a species of freshwater bivalve in the family Hyriidae.
There are four other cryptic species in the genus Velesunio (which all look similar to Velesunio ambiguus) in Australia.[4]
distribution mapComparison of the size of Velesunio ambiguus with a man's hand. This shell is 85 mm long and 49 mm wide.
^"species Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847): nominal species". The MUSSEL Project Web Site: MUSSELp. Archived from the original on 29 May 2023.
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Wright, D.; Thiem, J.; Blackman, E.; Beatty, S.; Lymbery, A.; Davis, S. (February 2022). Desiccation tolerance of river and floodplain mussels in the Murray-Darling Basin. Report to the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office(PDF). NSW Department of Primary Industries. p. 10. Retrieved 9 September 2023. While neither of the two species widely distributed through the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) (the river mussel Alathyria jacksoni and the floodplain mussel Velesunio ambiguus) are currently listed as threatened
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Fawcett J.H.; Hughes J.M.; Baker A.M. (2006). "Conservation of the Australian freshwater mussel". North American Benthological Society. Archived from the original on 14 December 2007.
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