Peer Review Plan for 5-Year Status Reviews – Multiple Species

The laurel dace, a fish in the Cyprinidae (Minnows) family, is found in streams in Bledsoe and Rhea Counties, Tennessee. The laurel dace was first collected by Charles Saylor, a TVA ichthyologist, in 1976. Because nonbreeding individuals are similar in appearance to the more common congener, the...

The Ochlockonee moccasinshell is a small freshwater mussel that can reach a length of 2.2 inches. It has an oval shape with a light brown shell that features dark green rays. The inner shell is bluish-white. Its valves are thin, with two teeth in the left valve and one tooth in the right valve.

The Georgia pigtoe (Pleurobema hanleyianum) is a freshwater mussel in the family Unionidae (Figure 1). It was described in 1852 by I. Lea as Unio hanleyianum from the Coosawattee River in Georgia. It was placed in the genus Pleurobema by Simpson in 1900. The uniqueness of the Georgia pigtoe has...

The following description of the Slabside Pearlymussel is taken from Parmalee and Bogan (1998, p. 150-152), Williams et al. (2008, p. 589-591), and Schilling (2015, p. 82). The Slabside Pearlymussel is a moderately sized mussel that reaches about 9 cm (3.5 in) in length. The shape of the shell is...