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genus Venustaconcha Frierson, 1927: synonymy

5 Recent freshwater species (5 total species)

Synonymy

Venusta Frierson, 1927

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

Venustaconcha Frierson, 1927

Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: errata et corrigenda.
Thiele, 1934. Handb. Syst. Weichtierk. 3: 837 [1273].
(new name for Venusta Frierson, 1927)
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 — Stansbery (1970), R.I. Johnson (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), ... Ma et al. (2024), FMCS (2025), Dai et al. (2025), Chen et al. (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
V. — Sheng et al. (2014)