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)

Medionidus acutissimus, the Alabama moccasinshell, is a species of freshwater mussel in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. It is native to Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, and possibly Florida.^[4] It is a federally listed threatened species of the United States.^[2][3]

This aquatic bivalve mollusk is about 3 centimeters long with a thin yellow or brownish yellow shell. The nacre is mostly translucent with a salmon pink area.^[3]

This mussel is native to the Mobile River drainage, where it was once widespread. Its numbers are now low, with only one population, in the Sipsey Fork, appearing to be stable. The highest numbers are found in streams in Bankhead National Forest, where it is common in some areas. It is probably extirpated from Florida and the rivers along the Gulf Coast.^[4]

References

Medionidus acutissimus es una especie de molusco bivalvo de la familia Unionidae.

Distribución geográfica

Es endémica de los Estados Unidos.

Referencias

• Bogan, A.E. 1996. Medionidus acutissimus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Medionidus acutissimus é uma espécie de bivalve da família Unionidae.

É endémica dos Estados Unidos da América.

Referências

• (em inglês) Bogan, A. E. 1996. Medionidus acutissimus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Dados de 7 de Agosto de 2007.