Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Cambarunio

species Cambarunio iris (Lea, 1829): specimens

15 available nominal species synonyms (24 total synonyms)

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Villosa iris — Graf & Cummings (2007), Tiemann et al. (2007), Williams et al. (2008), Watters et al. (2009), Jadhav & Jamkhedkar (2009), ... Bolotov et al. (2020), Inoue et al. (2020), Klymus et al. (2020), Gasparini et al. (2020), Jeratthitikul et al. (2022)
Cambarunio iris — Watters (2018), Pfeiffer et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Leaunio vanuxemensis — Watters (2018)

Range

Widespread in the Interior and Great Lakes basins, Canada and USA. Introduced to the Atlantic Slope in the Susquehanna River. (North America: NA2 NA3)

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

MUSSELp Specimen Records

Type Specimens

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GenBank Vouchers

Georeferenced GenBank Vouchers

USA

UMMZ_265713. (28S: DQ191422, COI: AF156524, go to GenBank) Big Mocassin Creek, VA.

UMMZ_265712. (COI: AF156523, go to GenBank) Huron River, MI.

GenBank Vouchers Not Yet Georeferenced

UAUC_2701. (ND1: AY655127, go to GenBank)