MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
by Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
by Family
Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
by Geography
Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Leaunio
species Leaunio lienosus (Conrad, 1834): specimens
22 available nominal species synonyms (24 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), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Li et al. (2026)
Leaunio lienosus aquilonius — Watters (2018), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Leaunio lienosus caliginosus — Watters (2018), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Leaunio lienosus ouachitaensis — Watters (2018)
Leaunio lienosus unicostatus — Watters (2018), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
V. lienosa — Marshall et al. (2018)
Leaunio lienosus — Burlakova et al. (2019), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), Rogers et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), ... Dai et al. (2024), Wu et al. (2024), Chen et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Leaunio lienosa — de Moulpied et al. (2022), Dai et al. (2025)
Range
Widespread in Interior Basin and eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, including the Suwannee River of Florida, USA. (North America: NA2 NA4)
Map of Georeferenced Specimens
MUSSELp Specimen Records
Type Specimens
USNM_85108
Red R., Alexandria, Louisiana
holotype
Unio caliginosus Lea, 1845
USNM_85102
Columbus, Georgia
holotype
Unio concestator Lea, 1857
USNM_85120
Stewarts Mill Dam, Union Co., N.C.
type
Unio contiguus Lea, 1861
USNM_85101
Columbus, Georgia
holotype
Unio dispar Lea, 1860
ANSP_56458
Vicksburg, Miss.
type
Unio fontanus Conrad, 1866
USNM_85160
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
type
Unio gouldii Lea, 1845
USNM_85122
Columbus, Georgia
holotype
Unio intercedens Lea, 1857
ANSP_9747
Alabama R., Ala.
type
Unio lienosus Conrad, 1834
USNM_85259
Columbus, Ga
figured type
Unio linguaeformis Lea, 1860
USNM_85307
Alexandria, Louisiana
holotype
Unio nigerrimus Lea, 1852
USNM_85089
Flint R., Macon Ga
figured type
Unio obfuscus Lea, 1857
USNM_85145
Roswell, Cobb Co., Georgia
paratypes
Unio prattii Lea, 1858
USNM_85131
Georgia
type
Unio proximus Lea, 1852
USNM_85095
creeks near Columbus, Georgia
holotype
Unio subellipsis Lea, 1857
USNM_159966
Spring Creek, Decatur Co., Ga
type
Unio unicostatus B.H. Wright, 1899
Other Specimens by Collection | show by country
1 Specimens from USNM
USNM_85125
French Broad R., Tenn.
GenBank Vouchers
Georeferenced GenBank Vouchers
USA
JBFMC_8569_1. (16S: PQ238819, go to GenBank) USA: Texas, Red River.
UF_441251. (COI: KT285660, ITS1, 5.8S: 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) .
GenBank Vouchers Not Yet Georeferenced
123TS. (COI: MK226699, ND1: MK226724, go to GenBank)
125TS. (COI: MK226700, ND1: MK226725, go to GenBank)
255TS. (COI: MK226701, go to GenBank)
388TS. (COI: MK226702, go to GenBank)
389TS. (COI: MK226703, go to GenBank)
JBFMC_9561_1. (COI: OK562097, go to GenBank)
Mp_3899_Llie1. (COI: MH161356, go to GenBank)
