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

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Leaunio

species Leaunio lienosus (Conrad, 1834): specimens
     23 available nominal species synonyms (26 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Villosa lienosa — Graf & Cummings (2007), Tiemann et al. (2007), Williams et al. (2008), Watters et al. (2009), Bogan (2010), ... Keogh & Simons (2019), Porto-Hannes et al. (2019), Inoue et al. (2020), Fukata & Iigo (2020), Hauck et al. (2023)
Leaunio lienosus lienosus — Watters (2018)
V. lienosa — Marshall et al. (2018)
Leaunio lienosus caliginosus — Watters (2018)
Leaunio lienosus unicostatus — Watters (2018)
Leaunio lienosus aquilonius — Watters (2018)
Leaunio lienosus ouachitaensis — Watters (2018)
Leaunio lienosus — Burlakova et al. (2019), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), Rogers et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), ... Wu et al. (2024), Dai et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Chen et al. (2025), FMCS (2025)
Leaunio lienosa — Dai et al. (2025)

Range

Widespread in Interior Basin and eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, including the Suwannee River of Florida, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

USA

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

USA

JBFMC_8569_1. (16S: PQ238819, go to Genbank) USA: Texas, Red River.

UF_441251. (5.8S: KT285704, COI: KT285660, ITS1: KT285704, go to Genbank) USA:Texas:Marion County:Big Cypress Creek [Bayou], Hwy 59, just S of Jefferson, TX, collected from a riffle 150m downstream of bridge crossing (32.751418, -94.353205) .