Alabama Moccasinshell

Medionidus acutissimus és una espècie de mol·lusc bivalve de la família Unionidae.

Descripció

• La closca fa 3,59 cm de llargària total.^[2]

Hàbitat

Viu a l'aigua dolça.^[3]

Distribució geogràfica

Es troba als Estats Units: Alabama, Geòrgia i Mississipí.^[3][4]

Referències

Bibliografia

• Baillie, J. i Groombridge, B., 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Suïssa.
• Evans, R. D., 2001. Historical and contemporary distributions of aquatic mollusks in the Upper Conasauga River system of Georgia and Tennessee. M.S. Thesis, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, 277 p.
• Gangloff, M. M., 2003. The status, physical habitat associations, and parasites of freshwater mussels in the upper Alabama River Drainage, Alabama. Ph.D. Dissertation, Auburn University.
• Groombridge, B. (ed.), 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Suïssa.
• Haag, W. R. i M. L. Warren, 2001. Host fishes and reproductive biology of freshwater mussels in the Buttahatchee River, Mississippi. Report to Mississippi Wildlife Heritage Fund, 41 p.
• Harris, S. C., 1990. Preliminary considerations on rare and endangered invertebrates in Alabama. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 61: 64-92.
• Hurd, J. C., 1974. Systematics and zoogeography of the unionacean mollusks of the Coosa River Drainage of Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. Ph.D. Dissertation, Auburn University, 240 p.
• Johnson, R. D., 1977. Monograph of the genus Medionidus (Bivalvia: Unionidae) mostly from the Apalachicolan Region, Southeastern United States. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4:161-178.
• McGregor, S. W. i J. M. Pierson, 1999. Recent freshwater mussel (Bivalvia:Unionacea) records from the North River system, Fayette and Tuscaloosa counties, Alabama. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Sciences 70:153-161.
• Neves, R. J., A. E. Bogan, J. D. Williams, S. A. Ahlstedt i P. W. Hartfield, 1997. Status of aquatic mollusks in the southeastern United States; a downward spiral of diversity. A: G. W. Benz i D. E. Collins eds. Aquatic Fauna in Peril; the Southeastern Perspective. Special Publication 1 Southeast Aquatic Research Institute, p 43-86. Lenz Design and Communications, Decatur, GA.
• Williams, J. D., M. L. Warren, K. S. Cummings, J. L Harris i R. J. Neves, 1993. Conservation status of freshwater mussels of the United States and Canada. Fisheries 18: 6-22.

Enllaços externs

• ITIS (anglès)
• Encyclopedia of Life (anglès)
• Animal Diversity Web (anglès)
• ZipCodeZoo (anglès)
• GBIF (anglès)
• NCBI (anglès)
• Catalogue of Life (anglès)
• Discover Life (anglès)
• Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 5-Year Review of 25 Southeastern Species (anglès)
• Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for Three Threatened Mussels and Eight Endangered Mussels in the Mobile River Basin; Final Rule (anglès)
• Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Proposed Designation of Critical Habitat for Three Threatened Mussels and Eight Endangered Mussels in the Mobile River Basin; Proposed Rule (anglès)
• Notice of Availability of a Revised Draft - Recovery Plan for the Mobile River Basin Aquatic Ecosystem for Review and Comment (anglès)
• Endangered Status for Eight Freshwater Mussels and Threatened Status for Three Freshwater Mussels in the Mobil River Drainage (anglès)