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genus Villosa Frierson, 1927: synonymy

4 Recent freshwater species (4 total species)

Synonymy

Villosa Frierson, 1927

(intro'd as sub-gen. of Lampsilis Rafinesque, 1820)
Frierson, 1927. Check List N. Amer. Naiades: 80.
Type species: Unio villosus B.H. Wright, 1898 (orig. desig.) = Villosa villosa

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Villosa, since 1900.

Lampsilis (s.s.) — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Lampsilis (sec. Eurynia) — Simpson (1900)
Unio (s.s.) — Call (1900)
Lampsilis — Simpson (1900)
Eurynia (Micromya) — Ortmann (1912)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) (Group of Lampsilis modioliformis) — Simpson (1914)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) (Group of Lampsilis amygdalum) — Simpson (1914)
Lampsilis (Eurynia) (Group of Lampsilis subrostrata) — Simpson (1914)
Lampsilis (Ligumia) — Frierson (1927)
Lampsilis (Villosa) — Frierson (1927), Haas (1969), Haas (1969)
Lampsilis (sec. Villosa) — Thiele (1934)
Villosa — Clench & Turner (1956), R.I. Johnson (1970), R.I. Johnson (1972), Burch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), ... Patterson et al. (2021), Hopper et al. (2023), Hauck et al. (2023), FMCS (2025), Campbell & Lydeard (2026)
Ligumia — Haas (1969)
Carunculina — R.I. Johnson (1972), Burch (1975)