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Spectaclecase
Cumberlandia monodonta
The spectaclecase is a freshwater mussel found in the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio River basins. Today, its range includes Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. With few exceptions, spectaclecase populations are highly fragmented and restricted to short stream reaches.
Propagation and Reintroduction Plan
The Service cooperated with state, federal, and local agencies, universities, and other partners to develop a propagation and reintroduction plan for Spectaclecase and will cooperate with those partners to implement this plan. The primary purpose of planned augmentations or reintroductions should be to establish free-ranging, self-sustaining wild populations of the species.
Spectaclecase Recovery Plan Outline (Jan. 2014) - - 18-page PDF: 1MB )
Spectaclecase Fact Sheet (March 2012)
Information about the Sheepnose (the mussel listed as endangered in the same package as the spectaclecase)
Spectaclecase Listed as Endangered
News Release:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Lists Two Freshwater Mussels as Endangered (March 12, 2012)
Federal Register Final Rule: Determination of Endangered Status for the Sheepnose and Spectaclecase Mussels Throughout Their Range
Questions and Answers: Sheepnose and Spectaclecase Mussels Listed as Endangered (March 2012)
Status Assessment Report for the spectaclecase, Cumberlandia monodonta, occurring in the Mississippi River system (September 2002) - - 66-page PDF; 276KB
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