Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Venustaconcha

species Venustaconcha constricta (Conrad, 1838): synonymy

5 specimens

Synonymy

Unio lienosus variety constrictus Conrad, 1838

(intro'd as intra-sp. of Unio lienosus Conrad, 1834)
Conrad, 1838. Monogr. Fam. Unionidae 1(10): 91, pl. 49, fig. 4.
Conrad, 1838. Monogr. Fam. Unionidae 2(11): back cover correginda [as ‘Unio constrictus’].
Conrad, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 6: 247 [as ‘Unio constrictus’].
HOLOTYPE ANSP_56465A, North River, Rockbridge Co., Va.

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) constrictus — Simpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) (Group of L. subrostrata) constricta — Simpson (1914)
Eurynia (Micromya) constricta — Ortmann (1915)
Lampsilis (Venusta) constricta — Frierson (1927)
Lampsilis constricta — R.I. Johnson (1947)
Lampsilis (Venustaconcha) constricta — Haas (1969)
Villosa constricta — R.I. Johnson (1970), Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), ... Haag (2012), IUCN (2012), Jones (2015), Williams et al. (2017), Hopper et al. (2023)
Venustaconcha constricta — Watters (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Inoue et al. (2026)

Unio genthii Lea, 1857

Lea, 1857. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 9: 85.
Lea, 1862. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 5 [O. 8]: 57 [61], pl. 2, fig. 204.
LECTOTYPE [AS HOLOTYPE] USNM_84834 (by R.I. Johnson, 1970: 378), “Roanoke R., Raleigh, N.C.” [Deep River, Gulf, Chatham Co., North Carolina].

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) constrictus — Simpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) (Group of L. subrostrata) constricta — Simpson (1914)
Lampsilis (Venusta) constricta — Frierson (1927)
Lampsilis (Venustaconcha) constricta — Haas (1969)
Villosa constricta — R.I. Johnson (1970), Burch (1975)
Venustaconcha constricta — Watters (2018)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) constrictus — Simpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) (Group of L. subrostrata) constricta — Simpson (1914)
Eurynia (Micromya) constricta — Ortmann (1915)
Lampsilis (Venusta) constricta — Frierson (1927)
Lampsilis constricta — R.I. Johnson (1947)
Lampsilis (Venustaconcha) constricta — Haas (1969)
Villosa constricta — R.I. Johnson (1970), Burch (1975), Turgeon et al. (1988), Williams et al. (1993), Turgeon et al. (1998), ... Haag (2012), IUCN (2012), Jones (2015), Williams et al. (2017), Hopper et al. (2023)
Venustaconcha constricta — Watters (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026), Inoue et al. (2026)