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Higgins eye pearlymussels.

Photo by USFWS

Freshwater Mussels in the Upper Midwest

Endangered and Threatened

 

About Freshwater Mussels

• Tippecanoe River, Indiana

 

• Learn about Endangered Freshwater Mussels in Ohio

 

• America's Mussels:  Silent Sentinals

 

• Mussels of the St. Croix River

 

• Mussels of the Ohio River

 

• The Exotic Zebra Mussel

 

• Overlooked Gems: The Benefits of Freshwater Mussels in Wings (Fall 2008): Essays on Invertebrate Conservation, a publication of the Xerces Society.

 

Clubshell(Pleurobema clava)

Status: Endangered

Clubshell Home

 

Cracking pearlymussel (Hemistena lata)

Status: Endangered:
Listed September 28, 1989 (PDF)

Extirpated from the Upper Midwest

 

Curtis' pearlymussel (Epioblasma florentina curtisii)

Status: Endangered:
listed June 14, 1976

 

• Natural History, Ecology, and Regulatory Information

  • Fact sheet
    Species' Profile linked to National USFWS Endangered Species website

• Recovery

  • 5 Year Review Initiated September 21, 2006
  • Best Management Practices for the Curtis' Pearlymussel (Missouri Department of Conservation) - PDF

 

Fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria)

Status: Endangered: listed June 21, 1990

Fact sheet

News Release (July 12, 2012): Drought, Heat Take toll on Tippecanoe River's Endangered Wildlife

 

Fat pocketbook (Potamilus capax)

Status: Endangered: listed June 14, 1976

Fact sheet

 

Higgins eye pearlymussel (Lampsilis higginsii)

Status: Endangered listed June 14, 1976

Higgins eye pearlymussel web page

 

Neosho mucket (Lampsilis rafinesqueana)

Status: Endangered

Neosho Mucket Home

 

Northern riffleshell (Epioblasma torulosa rangiana)

Status: Endangered

Northern riffleshell web page

 

Orange-footed pearlymussel

Status: Endangered: listed June 14, 1976

Fact sheet

 

Pink mucket (Lampsilis orbiculata (=l. abrupta))

Status: Endangered, listed June 14, 1976

Fact sheet

Life History Information (links goes to FWS National Endangered Species website)

 

Purple cat's paw pearlymussel (Epioblasma obliquata obliquata)

Status: Endangered, listed July 10, 1990 (links to a 5-page PDF)

Purple Cat's Paw Pearlymussel Home

 

Rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica)

Status: Threatened

Rabbitsfoot Midwest webpage

 

Rayed Bean (Villosa fabalis)

Status: Endangered

Rayed Bean webpage

 

Ring pink (=golf stick pearly) (Obovaria retusa)

Status: Endangered

Fact sheet

 

Rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum)

Status: Endangered, listed June 14, 1976

Fact sheet

 

Scaleshell (Leptodea leptodon)

Status:  Endangered, listed October 9, 2001

Scaleshell Home

 

Sheepnose (Plethobasus cyphyus)

Status: Endangered

Sheepnose webpage

 

Snuffbox (Epioblasma triquetra)

Status: Endangered

Snuffbox webpage

 

Spectaclecase (Cumberlandia monodonta)

Status: Endangered

Spectaclecase Home

 

Tubercled-blossom pearlymussel (Epioblasma torulosa torulosa)

Status: Endangered

Extirpated from the Upper Midwest

Fact sheet

 

White cat's paw pearlymussel (Epioblasma obliquata perobliqua)

Status: Endangered

Fact sheet

White Cat's Paw Pearly Mussel 5-Year Review (14-page PDF) December 2009

 

White wartyback pearlymussel (Plethobasus cicatricosus)

Status: Endangered

Fact sheet

 

Winged maple leaf (Quadrula fragosa)

Status: Endangered, listed June 20, 1991

Winged Mapleleaf Home

 

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