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Bivalvia | Unionida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini genus Venustaconcha Frierson, 1927: synonymy
5 Recent valid species (5 total species) 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) Taxonomic History (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)
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