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Pimpleback freshwater mussel Southeastern United States: NE Quadrula quadrula: Mapleleaf freshwater mussel northern Eastern United States + Eastern Canada: LC Quadrula refulgens: Purple pimpleback freshwater mussel U.S. endemic NT Quadrula rumphiana: Ridged mapleleaf freshwater mussel U.S. endemic NT Quadrula sparsa: Appalachian monkey-face ...
Out of 511 species assessed globally, 44% of freshwater mussels listed on the IUCN Red List are classified at some level of threatened. [23] There are 297 known freshwater mussel taxa in the United States and Canada, which are home to the most diverse freshwater mussel fauna in the world, especially in the southeastern United States. [24]
The Unionidae are a family of freshwater mussels, the largest in the order Unionida, the bivalve molluscs sometimes known as river mussels, or simply as unionids. [1] [2]The range of distribution for this family is world-wide.
Six species of freshwater mussels native to the Central Texas region will be listed as endangered species as of July 4, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday.
Exportation of freshwater mussels for the use in the Japanese cultured pearl industry has supported the North American freshwater mussel fisheries since the late 1950s. The mother of pearl (or nacre) from exported freshwater mussels are used to make a bead nucleus which is placed in a living animal to form a pearl. In the 1990s, the United ...
Unio mancus is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. [2] [3] Subspecies. Unio mancus mancus Lamarck, 1819; Unio mancus requienii Michaud, 1831; Unio mancus turtonii Payraudeau, 1826
Margaritiferidae is a family of medium-sized freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the order Unionida. [1] [2] It is the most threatened of all unionid families.[3]The family is sometimes referred to as the freshwater pearl mussel family, [4] but "freshwater pearl mussel" more often applies to the species Margaritifera margaritifera.
The brook floater [2] or swollen wedgemussel, [3] Alasmidonta varicosa, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. It measures 25.1 mm to 80.2 mm in length [4] although other research also suggests it rarely exceeds three inches (75 mm). [2]