Obovaria haddletoni (Athearn, 1964)

Choctawhatchee pocketbook, Haddleton lampmussel

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Lampsilis haddletoni Athearn, 1964

Conservation Status

Missing (Cummings & Cordeiro, 2012; Cowie et al., 2017) or Extinct (NatureServe, 2014, 2025)

Last record: c.1970 (Cummings & Cordeiro, 2012)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

Distribution & Habitat

Choctawhatchee River, Dale County, Alabama, USA

Records of this species from Florida and Mississippi are unconfirmed.

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Athearn, H. D. (1964). Three new unionids from Alabama and Florida and a note on Lampsilis jonesi. The Nautilus 77(4): 134-139.

Other references:

Anthony, J. L., Kesler, D. H., Downing, W. L. and Downing, J. A. (2001). Length-specific growth rates in freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae): extreme longevity or generalized growth cessation? Freshwater Biology 46: 1349-1359.

Athearn, H. D. (1970). Discussion of Dr. Heard's paper. Malacologia 10(1): 28-31.

Athearn, H. D. (1998). Additional records and notes on the unionid fauna of the Gulf Drainage of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Occasional Papers on Mollusks, 5(76): 465-467.

Blalock-Herod, H. N., Herod, J. J., Williams, James D., Wilson, B. N. and McGregor, S. W. (2005). A historical and current perspective of the freshwater mussel fauna (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the Choctawhatchee River drainage in Alabama and Florida. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History, 24: 1-26.

Butler, R. S. (1989). Distributional records for freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in Florida and south Alabama, with zoogeographic and taxonomic notes. Walkerana, 3(10): 239-261.

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.

Cummings, Kevin S. and Cordeiro, J. (2012a). Obovaria haddletoni. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 19 July 2013.

Cummings, Kevin S. and Cordeiro, J. (2012b). Obovaria haddletoni. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T11256A502298. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T11256A502298.en. Accessed on 06 July 2022.

Garner, J.T., Blalock-Herod, H.N., Bogan, A.E., Butler, R.S., Haag, W.R., Hartfield, P.D., Herod, J.J., Johnson, P.D., McGregor S.W., Williams, J.D. (2004). Freshwater mussels and snails, pp. 15-58. In: Mirarchi, R. E. (ed.). Alabama wildlife. Volume 1. A checklist of vertebrates and selected invertebrates: Aquatic mollusks, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

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 Rypel, A. L. (2011). Growth and longevity in freshwater mussels: evolutionary and conservation implications. Biological Reviews 86(1): 225-247.

Haag, W. R. and Staton, J. L. (2003). Variation in fecundity and other reproductive traits in freshwater mussels. Freshwater Biology 48: 2118-2130.

Johnson, R. I. (1967). Additions to the Unionid fauna of the Gulf Drainage of Alabama, Georgia and Florida (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Breviora, 270: 1-21.

Lydeard, C., Garner, J. T., Hartfield, P. and Williams, James D. (1999). Freshwater mussels in the Gulf Region: Alabama. Gulf of Mexico Science 17(2): 125-134.

Mirarchi, R. E., Garner, J. T., Mettee, M. F. and O'Neil, P. E. (2004). Alabama wildlife. Volume 2. Imperiled aquatic mollusks and fishes. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. xii + 255 pp.

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Obovaria haddletoni (Athearn, 1964). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=857465 on 2025-07-05

NatureServe. (2014). NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. Version 7.1. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://explorer.natureserve.org. (Accessed: January 27, 2015).

NatureServe. (2025). Obovaria haddletoni: Haddleton Lampmussel. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed 5 July 2025]

Stansbery, D. H. (1971). Rare and endangered freshwater mollusks in eastern United States, pp. 5-18. In: Jorgensen, S. E. and Sharp, R. W. Proceedings of a symposium of rare and endangered mollusks (naiads) of the United States. Twin Cities, Minnesota: U.S. Department of the Interior. 79 pp.

Turgeon, D. D., Quinn, J. F., Jr., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M. and Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks. 2nd Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26, Bethesda, Maryland: 526 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, 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.

Williams, James D., Butler, R. S., Warren, G. L. and Johnson, N. A. (2014). Freshwater Mussels of Florida. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. 498 pp.

Williams, James D., Warren, M. L., Cummings, Kevin S., Harris, J. L. and Neves, R. J. (1993). Conservation status of freshwater mussels of the United States and Canada. Fisheries 18(9): 6-22. https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8446(1993)018%3C0006:CSOFMO%3E2.0.CO;2

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