Pleurobema perovatum Conrad, 1834

Ovate clubshell

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct (Bogan & Cummings, 2012b; Graf & Cummings, 2021)

Last record: early 1900's (Bogan & Cummings, 2012b)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

Distribution

Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Conrad, T. A. (1834). New fresh water shells of the United States, with coloured illustrations, and a monograph of the genus Anculotus of Say; also a synopsis of the American naiades. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, U.S.A. 1-84, plates 1-9.

Other references:

Bogan, Arthur E. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2012a). Pleurobema perovatum. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 19 July 2013.

Bogan, Arthur E. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2012b). Pleurobema perovatum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T17689A1451921. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T17689A1451921.en. Accessed on 19 June 2022.

Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.

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 (36 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyaa034

Haag, W.R. and M.L. Warren, Jr. 2003. Host fishes and infection strategies of freshwater mussels in large Mobile Basin streams, USA. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 22(1): 78-91.

Mirarchi, R.E., Bailey, M.A., Garner, J.T., Haggerty, T.M., Best, T.L., Mettee, M.F. and O'Neil, P. 2004. Alabama Wildlife. Volume Four: Conservation and Management Recommendations for Imperiled Wildlife. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pleurobema perovatum (Conrad, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=857366 on 2025-07-06

Neves, R.J., Bogan, A.E., Williams, J.D., Ahlstedt, S.A. and Hartfield P.W. 1997. Status of Aquatic Mollusks in the Southeastern United States: A Downward Spiral of Diversity. In: G.W. Benz and D.E. Collins (eds), Aquatic Fauna in Peril: The Southeastern Perspective, pp. 554. Southeast Aquatic Research Institute, Decatur, Georgia.

Parmalee, P. W. and Bogan, Arthur E. (1998). The Freshwater Mussels of Tennessee. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. 328 pp.

Simpson, Charles Torrey. (1914). A descriptive catalogue of the naiades, or pearly fresh-water mussels. Parts I-III. Detroit, Michigan: Bryant Walker. 1540 pp.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (2008). Fine-lined pocketbook (Hamiota (=Lampsilis) altilis), orange-nacre mucket (Hamiota (=Lampsilis) perovalis), Alabama moccasinshell (Medionidus acutissimus) Coosa moccasinshell (Medionidus parvulus), Southern clubshell (Pleurobema decisum), dark pigtoe (Pleurobema furvum), southern pigtoe (Pleurobema georgianum), ovate clubshell (Pleurobema perovatum), triangular kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus greenii), upland combshell (Epioblama metastriata), and southern acornshell (Epioblasma othcaloogensis), 5-Year Review: Summary and Evaluation. Jackson, MS. 37 pp.

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, J.D., Bogan, A.E. and Garner, J.T. 2008. Freshwater Mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Williams, J.D. and Hughes, M.H. 1998. Freshwater mussels of selected reaches of the main channel rivers in the Coosa drainage of Georgia. U.S. Geological report to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, Alabama.

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