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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Venustaconcha

species Venustaconcha troostensis (Lea, 1834): synonymy
     1 specimen

Unio troostensis Lea, 1834
Lea, 1834. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 5 [O. 1]: 71, pl. 10, fig. 30.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84701, Stones River, Tenn.

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) trabalisSimpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) trabalisSimpson (1914)
Unio troostensisde Gregorio (1914)
Lampsilis (Venusta) trabalisFrierson (1927)
Lampsilis (Venustaconcha) trabalisHaas (1969)
Villosa trabalisParmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008)
Venustaconcha troostensisWilliams et al. (2017), Watters (2018), Lane et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)

Unio troostii Lea, 1870
‘Lea’ of Authors.
Lea, 1870. Synopsis Fam. Naiades: 39.
B.H. Wright, 1888. Check List N. Amer. Unionidae etc.: [6].
(error for Unio troostensis Lea, 1834)

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) trabalisSimpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) trabalisSimpson (1914)
Lampsilis (Venusta) trabalisFrierson (1927)
Lampsilis (Venustaconcha) trabalisHaas (1969)
Villosa trabalisParmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008)
Venustaconcha troostensisWatters (2018), Bieler (2021)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) trabalisSimpson (1900)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) trabalisSimpson (1914)
Unio troostensisde Gregorio (1914)
Lampsilis (Venusta) trabalisFrierson (1927)
Lampsilis (Venustaconcha) trabalisHaas (1969)
Villosa trabalisParmalee & Bogan (1998), Williams et al. (2008)
Venustaconcha troostensisWilliams et al. (2017), Watters (2018), Lane et al. (2019), Graf & Cummings (2021), Bieler (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)

 
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