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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Venustaconcha

species Venustaconcha pleasii (Marsh, 1891): synonymy

1 specimen

Synonymy

Unio pleasii Marsh, 1891

Marsh, 1891. The Observer 2: ??.
Marsh, 1891. Nautilus 5(1): 2.
Type(s): LECTOTYPE ANSP_56480, Little Red River, Ark.

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) pleasii — Simpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) pleasii — Simpson (1914)
Nephronaias pleasii — Utterback (1916)
Eurynia (Micromya) pleasi — Ortmann (1918)
Lampsilis (Venusta) pleasii — Frierson (1927)
Lampsilis (Venustaconcha) pleasi — Haas (1969)
Actinonaias ellipsiformis — R.I. Johnson (1980)
Venustaconcha ellipsiformis pleasii — Oesch (1984), Watters (2018)
Venustaconcha pleasi — Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Haag (2012)
Venustaconcha pleasii — Turgeon et al. (1998), Campbell et al. (2005), Zanatta & Murphy (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), ... Burlakova et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) pleasii — Simpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) pleasii — Simpson (1914)
Nephronaias pleasii — Utterback (1916)
Eurynia (Micromya) pleasi — Ortmann (1918)
Lampsilis (Venusta) pleasii — Frierson (1927)
Lampsilis (Venustaconcha) pleasi — Haas (1969)
Actinonaias ellipsiformis — R.I. Johnson (1980)
Venustaconcha ellipsiformis pleasii — Oesch (1984), Watters (2018)
Venustaconcha pleasi — Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Haag (2012)
Venustaconcha pleasii — Turgeon et al. (1998), Campbell et al. (2005), Zanatta & Murphy (2006), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), ... Burlakova et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)