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genus Venustaconcha Frierson, 1927: synonymy

5 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)

Synonymy

Venusta Frierson, 1927

(homonym of O. Boettger, 1877 [Gastro.]; intro'd as sub-gen. of Lampsilis Rafinesque, 1820; renamed Venustaconcha Frierson, 1927)
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 81.
Type species: Unio venustus Lea, 1838 (orig. desig.) = Venustaconcha ellipsiformis

Venustaconcha Frierson, 1927

(new name for Venusta Frierson, 1927)
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: errata et corrigenda.
Thiele, 1934. Handb. Syst. Weichtierk. 3: 837 [1273].
Type species: Unio venustus Lea, 1838 = Venustaconcha ellipsiformis

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Venustaconcha, since 1900.

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) — Simpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Carunculina) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (s.s.) — Call (1900)
Eurynia (Micromya) — Ortmann (1912), Ortmann (1915), Ortmann (1918), Ortmann (1918)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) — Simpson (1914)
Unio — de Gregorio (1914)
Nephronaias — Utterback (1916)
Micromya — Ortmann (1924), Ortmann (1925)
Lampsilis (Venusta) — Frierson (1927)
Ligumia (Micromya) — F.C. Baker (1928)
Lampsilis (sec. Venustaconcha) — Thiele (1934)
Lampsilis (Venustaconcha) — Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Villosa — R.I. Johnson (1970), Stansbery (1970), Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), Turgeon et al. (1988), ... Jones (2015), Lane et al. (2016), Williams et al. (2017), Klymus et al. (2020), Hopper et al. (2023)
Actinonaias — Burch (1975), Gordon et al. (1979), Mathiak (1979), R.I. Johnson (1980), ITIS (2012)
Venustaconcha — Oesch (1984), Turgeon et al. (1988), Cummings & Mayer (1992), Williams et al. (1993), Strayer & Jirka (1997), ... Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), FMCS (2025), Klymus et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
V. — Sheng et al. (2014)