Pleurobema hartmanianum (I. Lea, 1860)

Cherokee pigtoe

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Elevated from synonymy by (Williams et al., 2017).

Conservation Status

Last record: early 1900's (NatureServe, 2025)

Rediscovered in: 1997 (Williams et al., 2008 fide NatureServe, 2025)

Distribution & Habitat

Coosa River, USA (southeastern)

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Lea, I. (1860). Descriptions of six new species of Unionidae from Alabama. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 12: 307. [7 August 1860]

Other references:

Campbell, D. C., Johnson, P. D., Williams, J. D., Rindsberg, A. K., Serb, J. M., Small, K. K. and Lydeard, C. (2008). Identification of 'extinct' freshwater mussel species using DNA barcoding. Mol Ecol Resour. 8(4): 711-724.

Frierson, L. S. (1927). A Classified and Annotated Checklist of the North American Niades. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press. 111 pp.

Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2021). A ‘big data’ approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species. Journal of Molluscan Studies 87(1): eyaa034.

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pleurobema hartmanianum (I. Lea, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=857470 on 2025-07-06

NatureServe. (2017). NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. Version 7.1. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://explorer.natureserve.org. (Accessed: November 20, 2017).

NatureServe. (2025). Pleurobema hartmanianum: Cherokee Pigtoe. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed 6 July 2025]

Stansbery, D. H. (1976). Naiad mollusks, pp. 42-52. In: Boschung, H. (ed.). Endangered and threatened plants and animals of Alabama. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 2: 1-92.

Williams, James D., Bogan, Arthur E., Butler, Robert S., Cummings, Kevin S., Garner, Jeffrey T., Harris, John L., Johnson, Nathan A. and Watters, G. Thomas. (2017). A revised list of the freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionida) of the United States and Canada. Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation 20: 33-58.

Williams, James D., Bogan, Arthur E. and Garner, Jeffrey T. (2008). Freshwater mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. xv + 908 pp.

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