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Page last updated
Wed 06 Mar 2024

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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

This page reports the specimens in the MUSSELpdb and provides a map if geocodes are known. The taxonomic history reports the record of different names and combinations that have been applied to this species (and its synonyms) since 2007.

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Unionoida | Unionoidea | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Lampsilini | Venustaconcha

species Venustaconcha constricta (Conrad, 1838): specimens
     2 nominal species as synonyms

Taxonomic History (since 2007)

Villosa constrictaGraf & Cummings (2007), Cummings & Graf (2010), Bogan (2010), Haag (2012), ITIS (2012), IUCN (2012), Jones (2015), Williams et al. (2017), Hopper et al. (2023)
Venustaconcha constrictaWatters (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021)

Range: Virginia south to North Carolina, southern Atlantic Slope.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens
species map


USA

specimen
ANSP_56465A

North River, Rockbridge Co., Va.

specimen
USNM_84834

Roanoke R., Raleigh, N.C.

specimen
USNM_84836

Catawba River, N. Carolina

specimen
USNM_84833

Deep R., N.C.

specimen
ANSP_56465

Rockbridge Co., Va.

 

Page updated: 16:35:55 Wed 06 Mar 2024

 
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