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Data last updated
Thu 22 January 2026

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

species Venustaconcha trabalis (Conrad, 1834): specimens

2 available nominal species synonyms (6 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Villosa perpurpurea — Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Lane et al. (2016), Klymus et al. (2020)
Villosa trabalis — Graf & Cummings (2007), Williams et al. (2008), Bogan (2010), Cummings & Graf (2010), ITIS (2012), Haag (2012), Jones (2015), Lane et al. (2016), Klymus et al. (2020)
Venustaconcha trabalis — Williams et al. (2017), Watters (2018), Lane et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025)

Range

Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, USA.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

specimens map of Venustaconcha trabalis

MUSSELp Specimen Records


USA

image of lot ANSP_56481
ANSP_56481

Flint River, Ala.

image of lot USNM_85246
USNM_85246

Tenn.

Genbank Vouchers

There are no georeferenced Genbank vouchers for this species in the MUSSELpdb.